Prof. Dr. Markus Krajewski
Professor
Professor
Holbeinstrasse 12
4051 Basel
Schweiz
Further Information
Vita
1992-1996 | Bachelor’s degree in Modern German Literature, Philosophy, and Sociology at the University of Cologne |
1996-2000 | Master’s degree in Cultural Studies and Modern German Literature at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
2000-2001 | Freelance writer and software developer |
2001-2002 | Research Associate at the Hermann von Helmholtz Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
2002-2008 | Research associate at the Gerd Bucerius Endowed Professorship for History and Theory of Cultural Techniques, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
2005 | PhD degree with the book Restlosigkeit. Weltprojekte um 1900, engl. World Projects. |
WS 2004/05 | Research fellowship at the Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, within the art, science, and business program. |
2008-2013 | Assistant professor of Media History of Science, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
2008-2009 | PostDoc Fellowship at the Humanities Center at Harvard University, with funding from the Volkswagen Foundation. |
Spring 2009 | Visiting Professor at the History of Science Department at Harvard University. |
2011 | Postdoctoral lecturing qualification (habilitation) for the project Der Diener. Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen König und Klient, engl. The Server A Media History from the Present to the Baroque |
SS 2011 | Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. |
WS 2012-SS 2013 | Visiting professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg. |
Since 2014 | Professor of Media Studies with an focus on media history and theory at the University of Basel |
Research interests
PROJECTSResearch activities within the professorship develop a specific historical perspective on mediatic, cultural, epistemological, knowledge-historical, and cultural technological processes and events. These are analyzed and communicated using genuine cultural studies research tools and methods.
Core research
- Cultural and media history of service and subalterns
- Media and architecture
- Cultural techniques and media practices
- Peripheral epistemologies
- Planned obsolescence
- Programming as a Cultural technique
- World projects and the phantasmatics of technology
- Administrative tools of knowledge and their poetology
- Cetology: Moby-Dick, or: The Whale as a Media and Cultural Thing
- Historiography of the media
- Visualizations of knowledge
- Test pilots
- Errors in the sciences and humanities
Research projects
- Accuracy in the humanities, www.genauigkeit.ch
- Media and mimesis, www.fg-mimesis.de
- Specific building types in German post-war architecture, tiled fassades
- Scholarly tools (software development for humanities scholars), www.synapsen.ch
- Robots and servants
- Propaedeutics in cultural studies
- Bureaugraphies https://www.bureaugraphies.com
- Assisted thinking, a deep history of scholarly intelligence www.assisted-thinking.ch