Thomas Macho

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Thomas Macho (born July 2, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian cultural scientist and philosopher .

Macho is director of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna.

His main research interests include a. the history of the calculation of time and chronology , the cultural history of human-animal relationships, death and cults of the dead , religion in modern times, the history of rituals, the aesthetics of the monstrous, science and fiction. He also regularly writes essays and reviews for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Die Zeit and other print media . He works with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Berlin.

Life

Thomas Macho (temporarily Thomas Hartmann and Thomas H. Macho ) received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1976 on the subject of the dialectic of musical artwork . He completed his habilitation in 1983 with the work On the Metaphors of Death. A phenomenology of borderline experience in Klagenfurt for philosophy .

From 1993 to 2016 Macho was Professor of Cultural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he co-founded the interdisciplinary Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology . From 2008 to 2009 he was a Senior Fellow at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar and from 2008 to 2017 a conceptual consultant at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL) . Since 2009 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the International College Morphomata - Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations at the University of Cologne , since 2010 a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , since 2012 chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Study of End of Life «at the University of Tel Aviv and Principal Investigator in the basic projects“ Analog memory ”and“ Pictograms ”as part of the Cluster of Excellence“ Image Knowledge Design. An interdisciplinary laboratory "at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Macho has been director of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna since March 1, 2016 . Together with Mathias Greffrath and Elisabeth von Thadden (journalist) member of the jury for the Günther Anders Prize for Critical Thinking , which the International Günther Anders Society first awarded in 2018.

Machos 530-page specialist book Taking Life. Suicide in the modern age. (2017) as an approach to analyze suicide from a cultural-scientific point of view is considered "currently unique".

Awards

Publications (selection)

Author:

  • Take life. Suicide in the modern age. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42598-5 .
  • Role models. Fink, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5030-2 .
  • Life is unfair. Keep restless. Residence, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-1555-8 .
  • The ceremonial animal. Rituals - festivals - times between times. (Library of Restlessness and Preservation, Volume 9). Styria-Pichler, Vienna / Graz / Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-222-13161-9 .
  • Death metaphors. On the logic of borderline experience. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-518-11419-0 .
  • Bomb metaphors. An introduction to nuclear metaphysics. In: Almanach 85/88. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87956-178-8 , pp. 21-42.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. see Gerd B. Achenbach: Philosophical Practice. Dinter, Cologne 1984, p. 191.
  2. As of March 1, 2016, Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas Macho is the director of the IFK . IFK press release of September 2, 2015.
  3. ^ Dietmar Dath · Mathias Greffrath: The human possible. On the topicality of Günther Anders , Wiener Vorlesungen 138, edited by Daniel Löcker for the cultural department of the City of Vienna. Vienna (Picus Verlag) 2018, page 16. ISBN 978-3-7117-3009-1 .
  4. Review of Thomas Macho: Taking Life , socialnet.de, accessed July 12, 2019.
  5. ^ Viennese cultural scientist Thomas Macho receives Sigmund Freud Prize 2019 , Salzburger Nachrichten of July 12, 2019, accessed on the same date.
  6. Thirteen flashes of inspiration for humanity. In: FAZ . December 19, 2011, p. 26.