Max Stadler
Biographic Data
| ID | 972559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Stadler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Stadler |
| SIGNATURE | STADLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8236-8869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gründerzeit. Hightech und Alternativen der Wissenschaft in West-Berlin
Launched in 1982, the so-called Berliner Wissenschaftsladen e. V. (WILAB) belonged to the scattered West-German ventures in "counter-science". This article situates the origins of the "Laden" (~ workshop)-an "alternative" spin-off of sorts, spawned from the Technical University of Berlin-in the context of contemporary advances in regional science policy. In this connection, the ailing, de-industrializing "island city" arguably even played a certa…
Primordial Haptics, 1925-1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory
Psychotechnics', Weimar Germany's science du jour, typically is framed as a symptom of 'technological media' - obscuring the persistent significance of 'dexterity', 'skill' and 'manual labour' at the time. More broadly, there is a tendency to construe 'the haptic' as predominantly a casualty of modernity: skilled hands replaced by conveyor belts; skilled hands defended by the rearguard actions of arts-and-crafts movements; skilled hands destroyed…
Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration
After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration . In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more than a little antiquated. Our present, or so it would seem, is determined by forces other than ‘knowledge’ or, for that matter ‘science’. By the same …
Science in the 20th century and beyond
Once shunned by a generation of historians of science preferring to explore the more distant shores of early modern “scientific revolutions” (say), the yet more modern age of the twentieth century
Introduction: Surface Histories
The first section of this issue brings together four essays on “surfaces” – a subject matter which might seem conspicuous or, indeed, palpable enough. Just think of the sheets of paper, window panes, and haptic interfaces surrounding you: the world, evidently, is diffused with surfaces, membranes, and boundaries of all sorts. Some of these things have been salient, for obvious reasons in fields such as media studies, or implicit in notions such a…
Henning Schmidgen, Hirn und Zeit. Die Geschichte eines Experiments, 1800 – 1950 , Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2014
698 S., geb., € 49,90. ISBN 978‐3‐88221‐115‐3
Neurohistory Is Bunk: The Not-So-Deep History of the Postclassical Mind
The proliferation of late of disciplines beginning in "neuro"--neuroeconomics, neuroaesthetics, neuro-literary criticism, and so on--while welcomed in some quarters, has drawn a great deal of critical commentary as well. It is perhaps natural that scholars in the humanities, especially, tend to find these "neuro"-prefixes irritating. But by no means all of them: there are those humanists (evidently) who discern in this trend a healthy development…
Biophysikalisches Doppelleben, 1939–1946. Oder: Räume der Lange‐weile. Zur (Nicht‐)Zäsur des ‘Informationsdiskurses’
Biophysical Double‐lives, 1939–1946. Or: Spaces of Boredom. On ‘Information Discourse’ and (Dis)continuities in the Life Sciences. Arguably, few things have shaped the historiography of the mid‐twentieth century psy‐sciences (and indeed, of the life sciences and science/technology/intellectual life quite generally) more profoundly than the story of cybernetics. This essay aims to undermine this technofuturistic picture of epistemological upheaval…
Neurohistory Is Bunk: The Not-So-Deep History of the Postclassical Mind
The proliferation of late of disciplines beginning in "neuro"--neuroeconomics, neuroaesthetics, neuro-literary criticism, and so on--while welcomed in some quarters, has drawn a great deal of critical commentary as well. It is perhaps natural that scholars in the humanities, especially, tend to find these "neuro"-prefixes irritating. But by no means all of them: there are those humanists (evidently) who discern in this trend a healthy development…
Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration
After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration . In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more than a little antiquated. Our present, or so it would seem, is determined by forces other than ‘knowledge’ or, for that matter ‘science’. By the same …
Biophysikalisches Doppelleben, 1939–1946. Oder: Räume der Lange‐weile. Zur (Nicht‐)Zäsur des ‘Informationsdiskurses’
Biophysical Double‐lives, 1939–1946. Or: Spaces of Boredom. On ‘Information Discourse’ and (Dis)continuities in the Life Sciences. Arguably, few things have shaped the historiography of the mid‐twentieth century psy‐sciences (and indeed, of the life sciences and science/technology/intellectual life quite generally) more profoundly than the story of cybernetics. This essay aims to undermine this technofuturistic picture of epistemological upheaval…
Neurohistory Is Bunk: The Not-So-Deep History of the Postclassical Mind
The proliferation of late of disciplines beginning in "neuro"--neuroeconomics, neuroaesthetics, neuro-literary criticism, and so on--while welcomed in some quarters, has drawn a great deal of critical commentary as well. It is perhaps natural that scholars in the humanities, especially, tend to find these "neuro"-prefixes irritating. But by no means all of them: there are those humanists (evidently) who discern in this trend a healthy development…
Science in the 20th century and beyond
Once shunned by a generation of historians of science preferring to explore the more distant shores of early modern “scientific revolutions” (say), the yet more modern age of the twentieth century
Introduction: Surface Histories
The first section of this issue brings together four essays on “surfaces” – a subject matter which might seem conspicuous or, indeed, palpable enough. Just think of the sheets of paper, window panes, and haptic interfaces surrounding you: the world, evidently, is diffused with surfaces, membranes, and boundaries of all sorts. Some of these things have been salient, for obvious reasons in fields such as media studies, or implicit in notions such a…
Henning Schmidgen, Hirn und Zeit. Die Geschichte eines Experiments, 1800 – 1950 , Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2014
698 S., geb., € 49,90. ISBN 978‐3‐88221‐115‐3
Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration
After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration . In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more than a little antiquated. Our present, or so it would seem, is determined by forces other than ‘knowledge’ or, for that matter ‘science’. By the same …
Gründerzeit. Hightech und Alternativen der Wissenschaft in West-Berlin
Launched in 1982, the so-called Berliner Wissenschaftsladen e. V. (WILAB) belonged to the scattered West-German ventures in "counter-science". This article situates the origins of the "Laden" (~ workshop)-an "alternative" spin-off of sorts, spawned from the Technical University of Berlin-in the context of contemporary advances in regional science policy. In this connection, the ailing, de-industrializing "island city" arguably even played a certa…
Primordial Haptics, 1925-1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory
Psychotechnics', Weimar Germany's science du jour, typically is framed as a symptom of 'technological media' - obscuring the persistent significance of 'dexterity', 'skill' and 'manual labour' at the time. More broadly, there is a tendency to construe 'the haptic' as predominantly a casualty of modernity: skilled hands replaced by conveyor belts; skilled hands defended by the rearguard actions of arts-and-crafts movements; skilled hands destroyed…
Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cybernetics and Technology in Society (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)