Wolfgang Ernst
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Media scientist. Born 1959. Professor for Media Theory at Institut für Musik und Medienwissenschaft at Humboldt University, Berlin, where he co-runs the Media Archaeological Fundus.
Bibliography
Books
- M.edium F.oucault. Weimarer Vorlesungen über Archive, Archäologie, Monumente und Medien Weimar, 2000, 151 pp. ISBN 9783897391819. (in German) Excerpt. [1]
- Das Rumoren der Archive. Ordnung aus Unordnung, Berlin: Merve, 2002, 141 pp. ISBN 9783883961767. (in German)
- Sorlet från arkiven: Ordning ur oordning, trans. Tommy Andersson, Göteborg: Glänta, 2008. (in Swedish)
- Im Namen von Geschichte: Sammeln - Speichern - (Er)Zählen. Infrastrukturelle Konfigurationen des deutschen Gedächtnisses, Munich: Fink, 2003. (in German). Habilitation thesis; it "aimed at uncovering the hidden agencies and nondiscursive mechanisms (the technological infrastructure) of constructing collective memory (archives, libraries, museums, inventories, source editions, and data banks)."
- Medienwissen(schaft), zeitkritisch. Ein Programm aus der Sophienstraße. Antrittsvorlesung v. 21. Oktober 2003, Berlin: Humboldt University, 2004. (in German)
- Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses. Medien und Archive am Ende (des 20. Jahrhunderts), Berlin: Kadmos, 2007. (in German)
- Chronopoetik. Zeitweisen und Zeitgaben technischer Medien, Berlin: Kadmos, 2012. ISBN 3865991432. (in German)
- Gleichursprünglichkeit. Zeitwesen und Zeitgegebenheit technischer Medien, Berlin: Kadmos, 2012. ISBN 3865991440. (in German)
- Digital Memory and the Archive, University of Minnesota Press, 2012. [2]
- Signale aus der Vergangenheit. Eine kleine Geschichtskritik, Munich: Fink, 2013, 211 pp. [3] (in German)
Edited books
- With Matthias Middell (ed.), Medien - Revolution - Historie, Leipzig: Pauselius, 1991. (in German)
- With Georg Trogemann and Alexander Nitussov (eds.), Computing in Russia. The History of Computer Devices and Information Technology Revealed, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 2001.
- With Anselm Franke (eds.), Politik der Bilder. Visuelle Kompetenz und Kriegsbildrhetorik, Berlin: Kunst-Werke, 2002. (in German)
- With Stefan Heidenreich and Ute Holl (eds.), Suchbilder. Visuelle Kultur zwischen Algorithmen und Archiven, Berlin: Kadmos, 2003. (in German)
- With Friedrich Kittler (eds.), Schrift - Ton - Zahl im Medienverbund. Zur Archäologie des altgriechischen Vokalalphabets, Munich: Fink, 2006. (in German)
- With Friedrich Kittler, Berliner Programm einer Medienwissenschaft, Berlin: Kadmos, Schriftenreihe, 2006. (in German)
- With Wladimir Velminski (eds.), Semën Karsakov: Ideenmaschine. Von der Homöopathie zum Computer, Berlin: Kadmos, 2007. (in German)
Book chapters, Papers, Articles (selection)
- in English
- “Between Real Time and Memory on Demand: Reflections on/of Television", South Atlantic Quarterly 101, no. 3 (Summer 2002), pp 625–637.
- "Telling versus Counting? A Media Archaeological Point of View", Intermédialités 2 (Autumn 2003), pp 31–44. [4] [5]
- "The Archive as Metaphor: From Archival Space to Archival Time", Open 7, 2004, pp 46-53.
- "Let There Be Irony: Cultural History and Media Archaeology in Parallel Lines", Art History 28, no. 5 (November 2005).
- "Dis/continuities: Does the Archive Become Metaphorical in Multi-Media Space?", in New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, eds. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Keenan, New York and London: Routledge, 2006, pp 105–123.
- "Cultural Archive versus Technomathematical Storage", in The Archive in Motion, ed. Eivind Røssaak, Oslo: Novus Press, 2010, pp 53–73.
- "Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media", in Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, eds. Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, pp 239–255.
- More, [6]
Lectures
- "Archival Times: Tempor(e)alities of Media Memory", National Library, Oslo, 2010.
- "Signals and Symbols: A Media-Archaeological Approach to 'Textuality'", Yale University, 2012.
Interviews (selection)
- in English
- Geert Lovink, "Archive Rumblings. Interview with German media archeologist Wolfgang Ernst", 2003. [7]
- Lori Emerson, "Archives, Materiality and the “Agency of the Machine”: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst", 2013.
On Ernst
- Jussi Parikka, "Operative Media Archaeology: Wolfgang Ernst’s Materialist Media Diagrammatics", Theory, Culture & Society 2011, Vol. 28(5), 2011, pp 52-74.
See also
External links
- Ernst's profile at Humboldt University
- Merely the Medium: Die operative Verschränkung von Logik und Materie, lecture, Weimar, 2005, video and audio. [8]
- Ernst at German Wikipedia
