Wolfgang Ernst

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.

Works

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, 112 pp. (in Swedish) [2]
• 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, ed. & intro. Jussi Parikka, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 265 pp.
• 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. [6]
• "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.
• "From Media History to Zeitkritik", Theory, Culture & Society 30 (6), Special Issue: Cultural Techniques (November 2013), pp 132-146.
• More, [7]

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.
• Aura and Temporality: The Insistence of the Archive, Barcelona: MACBA, 2013, 25 pp. [8]

Interviews (selection)

in English

• Geert Lovink, "Archive Rumblings. Interview with German media archeologist Wolfgang Ernst", 2003. [9]
• Interview with Wolfgang Ernst by Ràdio Web MACBA's Son(i)a, December 2012. Audio, 28 min.
• Lori Emerson, "Archives, Materiality and the “Agency of the Machine”: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst", 2013.

Literature

• Jussi Parikka, "Operative Media Archaeology: Wolfgang Ernst’s Materialist Media Diagrammatics", Theory, Culture & Society 2011, Vol. 28(5), 2011, pp 52-74.

See also

• Media Archaeological Fundus
• Media archaeology
• Friedrich Kittler

Links

• Ernst's profile at Humboldt University
• Merely the Medium: Die operative Verschränkung von Logik und Materie, lecture, Weimar, 2005, video and audio. [10]
• Ernst at German Wikipedia