Markus Krajewski

Markus Krajewski is Associate Professor of Media History of Science at the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus University Weimar. During the 2008-09 academic year, he was a fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University where he also taught as a Visiting Professor at the History of Science Department. He is author of Paper Machines. About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929 (The MIT Press, 2011); Der Diener. Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen König und Klient (S. Fischer, 2010) and its translation, The Servant. Media History of a Figure between King and Client (Yale University Press, forthcoming); and Restlosigkeit: Weltprojekte um 1900 (S. Fischer, 2006) and its translation, As For the Rest. World Projects and Notions of Globality around 1900 (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). His current research projects include the epistemology of the peripheral, the history of exactitude in scholarly and scientific contexts, as well as recent developments in the Digital Humanities. He is also developer and maintainer of the bibliography software synapsen—a hypertextual card index (www.verzetteln.de/synapsen). For further information see: www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wissenschaftsgeschichte.