Markus Krajewski

Markus Krajewski (1972) is a cultural scientist and media historian. He is Professor of Media Studies with focus on the History and Theory of Media, University Basel. In 2002-2008 he was Associate Professor of Media History of Science in the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus University, Weimar, and in 2008-9 a Visiting Scholar at the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Krajewski is author of Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929 (MIT Press, 2011), Der Diener. Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen Koenig und Klient [The Servant: Media History of a Figure between King and Client] (S. Fischer, 2010), and Restlosigkeit: Weltprojekte um 1900 (S. Fischer, 2006). His current research projects include the history of scholarly and scientific exactitude, the media of servants, marginal epistemology, and specific shapes of German post-war architecture, especially tiled facades. He is also developer and maintainer of the bibliography software Synapsen – A Hypertextual Card Index.

Books

(in German unless noted)

• ZettelWirtschaft. Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek, Berlin: Kadmos, 2002.
  • Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929, trans. Peter Krapp, MIT Press, 2011, 215 pp. (in English)
• Restlosigkeit: Weltprojekte um 1900, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2006, 368 pp.
  • World Projects: Global Information Before World War I, University of Minnesota Press, (forthcoming 2014). (in English) [1]
• Der Diener. Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen Koenig und Klient, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2010.
• Lesen, Schreiben, Denken. Zur wissenschaftlichen Abschlußarbeit in 7 Schritten, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar: UTB / Böhlau, 2013.

Edited books and journals, articles

Links

• http://www.verzetteln.de/
• https://gtm.mewi.unibas.ch/personen/krajewski_e.html
• http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wissenschaftsgeschichte/index_e.html
• Ph.D. thesis