Peter Matussek

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Peter Matussek (born September 9, 1955 in Oberhausen ) is a German literary and media culture scholar who has been professor of media aesthetics at the University of Siegen since 2008 .

Life

After graduating from the University of Hamburg (1984), Peter Matussek worked as a computer journalist (MacUp, PAGE) and software developer (STACKS) as well as an expert on computer use in the humanities, among others. a. for the Federal Ministry of Research . In 1990 he received his doctorate on Goethe's natural aesthetics. He then headed the interdisciplinary research project “Goethe and the temporalization of nature” at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen . From 1993 to 1999 he had a position as a research assistant at the cultural studies seminar of the Humboldt University in Berlin (at the Hartmut Böhme chair ). 2000–2004 he headed the DFG project Computer as a Memory Theater in the Collaborative Research Center 447 (Cultures of the Performative) at the Free University of Berlin (spokesperson: Erika Fischer-Lichte ); At the same time, he represented the professorship for multimedia production at the University of Siegen from 2001 to 2003. 2003–2008 he followed a call to the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf as professor for 'Theory and History of Writing / Practice of Writing' with a corner professorship in media culture studies. In 2008 he changed to the chair for media aesthetics at the University of Siegen .

Peter Matussek taught a. a. as visiting professor in South Korea, Japan, Indonesia and China.

family

Peter Matussek has four brothers, u. a. the journalist Matthias Matussek and the diplomat Thomas Matussek . He is a nephew of the psychiatrist Paul Matussek and the biochemist Norbert Matussek .

Awards

  • 2000: Wrigley's Airwaves Award CoolSpot Science for the web portal of the Sfb 447 (with L. Boehning)
  • 2008: Teaching award from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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Peter Matussek characterizes his approach as a 'historical anthropology of media practices'. Accordingly, he defines “ media aesthetics ” as self-experience of the natural and technical mediation of human perception. Other key terms in his research are “memory technology” - understood as an inspiration technique and “knowledge staging” as an act of data processing that cannot be detached by the subject / user.

Book publications

  • Image of nature and history of discourse. “Faust” study for the reconstruction of aesthetic theory. Stuttgart 1992.
  • (as editor): Goethe and the temporalization of nature. CH Beck, Munich 1998.
  • Goethe as an introduction. 2nd edition, Junius, Hamburg 2002.
  • (as co-author with Paul Matussek and Jan Marbach): Hitler. Career of madness. Herbig, Munich 2000 (Italian edition 2003, English edition 2007).
  • (as editor with Natascha Adamowsky ): omissions. Gaps as Movens in Cultural Studies. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004.
  • (as co-author with Hartmut Böhme and Lothar Müller ): Orientation cultural studies. What she can do, what she wants. 3. Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007 (Korean. Edition 2004).
  • Lived madness. Precarious biographies from two centuries. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg (to be published).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Matussek: Medial Practices. In: Hartmut Böhme, Peter Matussek, Lothar Müller (ed.): Orientation cultural studies. What she can do, what she wants. 3rd edition, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2007, pp. 179–202.
  2. ↑ http://www.medienaesthetik.uni-siegen.de/medienaesthetik/
  3. ↑ http://peter-matussek.de/Pro/F_03.html
  4. ↑ http://peter-matussek.de/Pub/V_63.html
personal data
SURNAME Matussek, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen