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, provisionally titled
Start-Up West-Berlin — a history of urban crisis/deindustrialization, regional innovation policy, and the rise of ″entrepreneurial science″ in the FRG/West-Berlin, ca. 1966/67–1989. It tells the story of the FRG's growing infatuation with (so-called) ″new technology-based firms″, technology-transfer, science parks, venture capital, and so on – the dream of its very own
Silicon Valley –, ... and of the ways this began to reshape the University, intersected with broader political-economic transformations, and ultimately sidelined alternative visions of future-making. 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).
