Markus Krajewski (media scientist)

Markus Krajewski (* 1972 in Olpe ) is a German cultural and media scholar. He is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Basel .

Life

From 1992 Krajewski studied modern German literature , philosophy and sociology at the University of Cologne . In 1996 he moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin . After completing his master's degree in cultural studies and modern German literature in 2000, he initially worked as a freelance author and software developer. In 2001 he got a position as a research assistant at the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology . In 2002 he moved to the Bauhaus University Weimar , where he obtained a Dr. phil. received his doctorate .

In 2008 he was appointed to the junior professorship for media history there. After a one-year research stay at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University and a visiting professorship at the Department of the History of Science there in 2008/2009 , he completed his habilitation in 2011. In 2013, he was visiting professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg .

Krajewski has been Professor of Media Studies with a focus on media theory and media history at the University of Basel since 2014.

Publications (selection)

As an author

• Paper mess. The birth of the card index from the spirit of the library . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-931659-29-1 (print version of the master's thesis)
  • English edition: Paper Machines. About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 . Cambridge, Mass./London, The MIT Press 2011. ISBN 978-0-262-01589-9
• Restlessness. World projects around 1900 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006. ISBN 978-3-596-16779-1 (dissertation)
  • English edition: World Projects. Global Information Before World War I . The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2014. ISBN 978-0-8166-8351-2
• The servant. Media history of a figure between king and client . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-3-10-038198-9
  • English edition: The Server. A Media History from the Present to the Baroque . Yale University Press, New Haven 2018. ISBN 978-03-00-18081-7
• Reading, writing, thinking. To the scientific thesis in 7 steps . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, 2nd edition 2015. ISBN 978-3-8252-4237-4
• Types of conscience. About facades of German post-war architecture . With photographs by Christian Werner. Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016. ISBN 978-3-520-90801-8

As editor

• (with Lorenz Gräf): Sociology of the Internet. Trading in electronic web works . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997. ISBN 3-593-35773-9
• (with Peter Berz and Helmut Höge ): The light bulb book. edition selene, Vienna 2001. ISBN 978-3-442-33790-3
• (with Bernhard Siegert ): Thomas Pynchon. Archive - Conspiracy - History . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2003. ISBN 3-89739-367-0
• Project maker. For the production of knowledge in the form of failure . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2004. ISBN 978-3-931659-56-1
• (with Harun Maye): The hyena. Readings of a political animal . With photos by Pieter Hugo. diaphanes Verlag, Zurich / Berlin, 2010. ISBN 978-3-03734-136-0
• Cornelia Vismann : Media of Jurisprudence , ed. by Alexandra Kemmerer and Markus Krajewski. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011. ISBN 978-3-10-067031-1
• Cornelia Vismann: The law and its means. Selected writings , ed. by Markus Krajewski and Fabian Steinhauer. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012. ISBN 978-3-10-067032-8
• (with Jasmin Meerhoff and Stephan Trüby): easement architectures. From the service corridor to ambient intelligence. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen, Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3803008176

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus Krajewski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile on the website of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Basel
• Personal website of Mark Krajewski