Wolfgang Ernst (born 1959) is a German media theorist. He is Professor for Media Theories at
Humboldt University of Berlin and a major exponent of
media archaeology as a method of scholarly inquiry.[1]
In 2001 he finished his
habilitation about institutions of remembrance and memory in the 19th and 20th century. Since April 2003 he is a full professor at
Humboldt University of Berlin. 2015-2017 Wolfgang Ernst has held the position as director of the Department for Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin.[4]
Ernst is internationally known as a theorist of archives and the media practice of archiving and as an exponent of
media archaeology. His latest work focuses on media-time, time-critical media, and the "sonic" as a form that connects technical and musical practices. He is the founder of a unique operative collection of technical media at Humboldt University Berlin — the "media archaeological fund".[4]
Selected writings in German
Das Rumoren der Archive. Ordnung aus Unordnung (
ISBN3-88396-176-0), Merve, Berlin 2002
Im Namen von Geschichte. Sammeln – Speichern – (Er-)Zählen (
ISBN3-7705-3832-3, Habilitationsschrift HU Berlin), Wilhelm Fink, München 2003
Doppelband Gleichursprünglichkeit. Zeitwesen und Zeitgegebenheit technischer Medien (
ISBN3865991440) und Chronopoetik. Zeitweisen und Zeitgaben technischer Medien (
ISBN3865991432),
Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin, 2013
Signale aus der Vergangenheit. Eine kleine Geschichtskritik (
ISBN978-3-7705-5477-5), Wilhelm Fink, Berlin 2013
Im Medium erklingt die Zeit. Technologische Tempor(e)alitäten und das Sonische als ihre privilegierte Erkenntnisform (
ISBN978-3-86599-274-1),
Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2015
Stirrings in the Archive. Order from Disorder, (
ISBN978-1-4422-5395-7, translation of Das Rumoren der Archive) Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London 2015
Chronopoetics. The Temporal Being and Operativity of technological Media, (
ISBN978-1-7834-8570-3, selection and translation of texts taken from Gleichursprünglichkeit. Zeitwesen und Zeitgegebenheit technischer Medien and Chronopoetik. Zeitweisen und Zeitgaben technischer Medien) Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London 2016
Sonic Time Machines. Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity, (
ISBN978-90-8964-949-2) Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2016
The Delayed Present: Media-Induced Tempor(e)alities & Techno-traumatic Irritations of the Contemporary, (
ISBN978-3-95679-340-0) Sternberg Press, Berlin 2017
References
^Jussi Parikka (2011). "Operative Media Archaeology: Wolfgang Ernst's Materialist Media Diagrammatics". Theory, Culture & Society. 28 (5): 52–74.
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