Benjamin Steininger

Benjamin Steininger (* 1974 in Munich ) is a German cultural and media theorist , science and technology historian and exhibition organizer .

Life

Benjamin Steininger studied cultural studies and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and completed his studies with a technical history thesis on the Reichsautobahn under Friedrich Kittler . In 2015 he did his doctorate at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Vienna with Claus Pias and Peter Berz on the subject of catalysts - a key principle of the 20th century .

He received grants and research stays at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, at the Initiativkolleg "Natural Sciences in Historical Context" at the University of Vienna, at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (IFK) and at the Center for Literature and cultural research (ZfL) in Berlin. In 2007 he worked on the exhibition Sex! Pole! Energy! Life and work of Wilhelm Reich at the Jewish Museum Vienna. In 2008 and 2009 he was involved in the conception of a new Austrian oil museum in Neusiedl / Zaya.

He is the head of the virtual collection project Raw Material History on 100 Years of Oil and Natural Gas in Austria. His main research areas are the history of acceleration , the history of modern materials, and the cultural history and theory of fossil fuels.

Works

Monographs

• Catalyst - A key principle of the 20th century . Dissertation. University of Vienna, 2014.
• Space machine Reichsautobahn. On the dynamics of a known / unknown building . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86599-281-1 .

Essays

• A cornucopia of the 20th century In: “Project 100 Years of Present” (publisher: House of World Cultures ), November 29, 2017: “The culture and media theorist Benjamin Steininger from the Beauty of Oil group explains the merging of coal with the petrochemical industry since the 1920s and outlines its far-reaching consequences from the Second World War to the present day. "
• Catalyst - The mobilization of the material. In: Ivo Gurschler, Sebastian Hackenschmidt (Red.): From ways: Paving the way for modernity. (= Tumult, writings on traffic science. Volume 39). Pandora's box, Wetzlar 2013, ISBN 978-3-88178-539-6 , pp. 76–84.
• Cinematography and Catalysis: The Age of Chemistry in “Das Blumenwunder” (1926). In: Ines Lindner (Ed.): Go bloom flow. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2014, pp. 231–244.
• “Fuel!” On the dirty base of traffic. In: Christoph Neubert, Gabriele Schabacher (Hrsg.): Transport history and cultural studies: analyzes at the interface of technology, culture and media. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 223–248.
• Ground glass windshield. To present Germany on the Autobahn. In: Jörg Dünne, Sabine Friedrich, Kirsten Kramer (eds.): Theatricality and spatiality. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, pp. 213–232.
• Pipeline. At the pulse of fossil modernity. In: Kijan Espahangizi, Barbara Orland (ed.): Fabrics in motion. diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2014, pp. 231–244.
• Refinery and Catalysis. In: Jürgen Renn, Bernd Scherer (Ed.): The Anthropocene. To the state of affairs. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015.
• Refinery and Catalysis. In: Kathrin Klingan, Bernd Scherer et al. (Eds.): Textures of the Anthropocene, Grain / Vapor / Ray. Volume Vapor, MIT-Press, Boston 2014, pp. 105-118.
• On the energy value of time. In: Claus Leggewie, Ursula Renner, Peter Risthaus (eds.): Promethean culture: where do our energies come from? Fink, Munich 2013, pp. 293–308.

Web links

• Commodity History , accessed November 20, 2015.
• Benjamin Steininger: A Matter Theater - Age of the Catalyst. Demonstration on October 17, 2014 at the Das Anthropozän-Projekt congress in the House of World Cultures in Berlin, accessed on November 20, 2015.
• Trafik - Viennese working talks for cultural studies (project homepage and documentation of the TRAFIK event format, designed together with Christina Wessely, Karin Harrasser and Thomas Brandstetter, Vienna working talks on cultural studies, documentation of events from 2007 onwards at the Wiener Festwochen, at the Bauhaus University Weimar, at the Art Academy for Media Cologne , at the Volkskundemuseum Vienna etc.), accessed on November 20, 2015.
• Benjamin Steininger at Science Communications eV , accessed on November 20, 2015.
• Literature by and about Benjamin Steininger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benjamin Steininger: Space Machine Reichsautobahn. On the dynamics of a known / unknown building . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2005.
2. ^ Benjamin Steininger: Catalyst - A key principle of the 20th century . Dissertation . University of Vienna, 2014.
3. ↑ Sex! Pole! Energy! The life and work of Wilhelm Reich curated by Birgit Johler, [1] , accessed on November 20, 2015.
4. ^ Rohstoff - Geschichte [2] , accessed on November 20, 2015.