Publication - Author - Wolfgang Ernst (D)
Underway to the Dual System: Classical Archives and / or Digital Memory
Wolfgang Ernst is professor of media theories at Humboldt-University, Berlin. He studied history, classics, and archaeology, and wrote his Ph.D. thesis in 1989 on historicism and museology. He has teaching experience and guest professorships in culture and media studies at several universities (Leipzig, Cologne, Weimar, Bochum, Paderborn, Berlin). Publications include M.edium F.oucault (Weimar 2000), Das Rumoren der Archive (Berlin 2002), Im Namen von Geschichte (Munich 2003), and Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses (Berlin 2007). His current research fields include time-based and time-critical media, and the “sonic” dimension of techno-mathematics.