Wolfgang Ernst is Professor for Media Theories at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. He studied history, classics, and archeology; in the 1980s and 1990s his interests focused on theory of history, museology and the archive. His current research fields include reflections on time-based and time-critical media, their technological aspects and relations to sound (“the sonic”).
His books include: M.edium F.oucault. Weimarer Vorlesungen über Archive, Archäologie, Monumente und Medien (2000); Das Rumoren der Archive. Ordnung aus Unordnung (2002); Im Namen von Geschichte: Sammeln, Speichern, (Er)zählen (2003); Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses. Medien und Archive am Ende (des 20. Jahrhunderts) (2007). Twin monographies: Chronopoetik. Zeitweisen und Zeitgaben technischer Medien; Gleichursprünglichkeit. Zeitwesen und Zeitgegebenheit technischer Medien (2012). A selection of writings in English: Digital Memory and the Archive, ed. by Jussi Parikka (2013).