I'm a historian of science & technology; currently I'm ›Vertretungsprofessor‹ (2021-2023) for the Cultural History of Modernity at Bauhaus-University Weimar. (previously here (CHoSTM / Imperial College London), then here (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), then here (Science Studies / ETH Zurich)).
These days I'm interested, mainly, in the history of ›high tech‹ — how this became a Thing, scientifically, economically, politically, intellectually, ideologically ( ... with a special focus on Deutschland: High-Tech BRD ). presently, I'm turning parts of this into a book: Start-Up West-Berlin, a history of urban crisis, regional ›innovation‹ policy, and the rise of ›entrepreneurial science‹ in the FRG/West-Berlin, ca. 1975-1989. I'm also (still) working on a book/project titled Neue Arbeit (i.e., ›New Work‹): a history of mental labour X technological change as seen through the sciences of ›post-industrial‹ work (ergonomics, industrial sociology, human factors engineering, HCI, and the like).
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Man not a Machine. Models, Minds, and Mental Labour, c. 1980 (2017). In: Modeling Brains – The Making and Use of Animal Models in Neuroscience and Psychiatry. ed. Nikolas Rose / Tara Mahfoud / Sam McLean, Progress in Brain Research (233), 73–100.
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Circuits, Algae, and Whipped Cream: The Biophysics of Nerve, c. 1930 (2017). In: The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences. Technique, Technology, Therapy. ed. Delia Gavrus / Stephen Casper. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 107–135.
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Am Ende der Arbeit: Industriekultur und Bilderglaube (2016) (w/ Fabian Grütter). In: kritische berichte 44/3, 43–52.
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Wissen, ca. 1980 — Editorial (2016) (w/ Nils Güttler / Margarete Pratschke). In: Wissen, ca. 1980 – Nach Feierabend 2016. ed. Nils Güttler / Margarete Pratschke / Max Stadler. Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 7–14.
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Before Critique Ran Out of Steam : Die Zeitschrift ›Wechselwirkung — Technik, Naturwissenschaft, Gesellschaft‹, 1979–1989. Ein Interview mit Reinhard Behnisch, Barbara Orland und Elvira Scheich (2016). In: Wissen, ca. 1980 — Nach Feierabend 2016. ed. Nils Güttler / Margarete Pratschke / Max Stadler. Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 15–33.