University of Basel

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Prof. Dr. Markus Krajewski
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Markus Krajewski
Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät
Departement Künste, Medien, Philosophie
Professur Krajewski

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Holbeinstrasse 12
4051 Basel
Schweiz

Tel. +41 61 207 04 44
markus.krajewski@unibas.ch

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Vita

1992-1996Bachelor’s degree in Modern German Literature, Philosophy, and Sociology at the University of Cologne
1996-2000Master’s degree in Cultural Studies and Modern German Literature at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2000-2001Freelance writer and software developer
2001-2002Research Associate at the Hermann von Helmholtz Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2002-2008Research associate at the Gerd Bucerius Endowed Professorship for History and Theory of Cultural Techniques, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2005PhD degree with the book Restlosigkeit. Weltprojekte um 1900, engl. World Projects.
WS 2004/05Research fellowship at the Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, within the art, science, and business program.
2008-2013Assistant professor of Media History of Science, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2008-2009PostDoc Fellowship at the Humanities Center at Harvard University, with funding from the Volkswagen Foundation.
Spring 2009Visiting Professor at the History of Science Department at Harvard University.
2011Postdoctoral lecturing qualification (habilitation) with the project Der Diener. Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen König und Klient, engl. The Server A Media History from the Present to the Baroque
SS 2011Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
WS 2012-SS 2013Visiting professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Since 2014Professor of Media Studies with a focus on media history and theory at the University of Basel

 

Research interests

PROJECTS

The research develops a specific historical perspective on mediatic, cultural, epistemological, knowledge-historical, and cultural technological processes and events. Methods are drawn from German Media Theory, Cultural Techniques Research, and Discourse Analysis.

Core research

  • Deep History of Artificial Intelligence from the Baroque to the Present
  • Cultural and Media History of Service and Assistance
  • Media and Architecture
  • Planned Obsolescence in History, Theory, and Practices
  • Coding as a Cultural Technique
  • Cookings as a Cultural Technique
  • Tools of Knowledge Organisation: Card Indexes, Cabinets, and Catalogs
  • Cetology: Moby-Dick, or The Whale as a Mediatic and Cultural Thing
  • Historiography of Media
  • Visualisation of Knowledge
  • Precision, Errors and Corrections in the Humanities

 

Research projects

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