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Markus Krajewski
Markus Krajewski is professor of media studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the 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), From Servant to Server: A History of Assistance from Baroque to the Present (Yale University Press, forthcoming), Restlosigkeit: Weltprojekte um 1900 (S. Fischer, 2006), World Projects: Global Information Before WWI (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), and Bauformen des Gewissen: Über Fassaden deutscher Nachkriegsarchitektur (Stuttgart, 2015). His current research projects include the problem of planned obsolescence, media and architecture, epistemology of the peripheral, and the history of exactitude in scholarly and scientific contexts. He is also developer and maintainer of the bibliography software synapsen – a hypertextual card index (www.synapsen.ch). For further information see: markus.krajewski.ch.