Max Stadler
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Max Stadler received a Ph.D. in the history of science, technology and medicine from CHoSTM, Imperial College, London in 2010. He also holds a MSc in the history of science, technology and medicine and a BSc in cognitive science.
His current project "The User. Psychology, Machines, Design, 1930-1980" concerns a genealogy of that category – user – as a model of late modern thinking and doing: a history of the ways cognition and perception in the 20th century was shaped, enhanced and mediated: by machines; in sites such as factories, office-spaces and zones of war; and by disciplines such as ergonomics, human factors engineering, and industrial design.
Max, together with Michael Hagner, also co-directed the research project external pageAugenarbeit – Visual Performance and Visual Designcall_made at Eikones, NCCR Bildkritik, University of Basel.
Prior to coming to ETH, he was a pre- and post-doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (2009-2010) and an associate researcher at the Volkswagenstiftungs-project "critical neuroscience", where he continued to pursue his doctoral research interests in the history of the nervous system in the 20th century. The two workshops he co-organized, "Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries" (MPIWG Berlin, October 2010) and external page"Neuro-Reality Check"call_made (MPIWG Berlin, December 2011), were/are by-products of this work; a related book manuscript, titled "Unnatural Knowledge. The Physiology of Modern Things," is also in preparation.
Publications
- with Monika Wulz / Nils Güttler / Fabian Grütter (Ed.). 2021. external pageDeregulation und Restauration. Eine politische Wissensgeschichte.call_made Berlin: Matthes & Seitz.
- with Nils Güttler / Niki Rhyner et al. 2020. Gegen|Wissen. cache 01. Zürich: Intercom Verlag. Online edition: external pagecache.ch/gegenwissen.call_made
- with Nils Güttler / Niki Rhyner. (Ed.). 2018. Æther #1: Flughafen Kloten. Anatomie eines komplizierten Ortes. Zürich: Intercom Verlag.
- with Nils Güttler / Margarete Pratschke. (Ed.). 2016. external pageWissen, ca. 1980.call_made Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes.
- with Mathias Grote. (Ed.). 2015. external pageSurfaces in the History of Modern Science: Inscribing, Separating, Enclosing.call_made Special issue on Surfaces: Science in Context.
- with Mathias Grote. (Ed.). 2011. DownloadMembranes, Surfaces and Boundaries. Interstices in the History of Science, technology and culture. (PDF, 9.3 MB)vertical_align_bottom Berlin: Preprints des Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (420).
- with Monika Wulz / Nils Güttler / Fabian Grütter. 2021. "Einleitung". In: external pageDeregulation und Restauration. Eine politische Wissensgeschichte.call_made Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 9-16.
- with Fabian Grütter / Nils Güttler / Monika Wulz. 2021. "Lokales Wissen – Clifford Geertz: Local Knowledge (1983)". In: external pageDeregulation und Restauration. Eine politische Wissensgeschichte.call_made Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 163-177.
- with Monika Wulz. 2020. external pageNeben Feyerabend. Wissenschaftsforschung neokonservativ.call_made In: Nach Feierabend 2020 – Feierabend? (Rück-)Blicke auf 'Wissen'. ed. Sandra Bärnreuther / Maria Böhmer / Sophie Witt. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 40–61.
- with Monika Wulz. 2020. external pageDifferenz.call_made In: Gegen|Wissen (= cache 01). ed. Max Stadler / Nils Güttler / Niki Rhyner / Mathias Grote / Fabian Grütter / Tobias Scheidegger / Martina Schlünder / Anna Maria Schmidt / Alexander von Schwerin / Monika Wulz / Nadine Zberg. Zürich: intercom, II/63–95.
- 2019. external pageDie Kybernetik hört nicht auf.call_made In: NTM. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 27/1, 79-93.
- with Nils Güttler. 2019. external pageNon Stop Horkheimer.call_made In: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 13/1, 85-96.
- 2018. "Vom »problem-solver« zum »bricoleur«. Oder: Maschinensturm, ca. 1980". In: external pageWild Thing. Unordentliche Prozesse in Design und Wissenschaft.call_made ed. Claudia Mareis / Christof Windgätter. Berlin: Kadmos, 195-214.
- with Fabian Grütter / Nils Güttler / Monika Wulz. 2018. external pageNach dem Wissen. Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration.call_made In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41/4, 359-362.
- with Fabian Grütter. 2018. external pageHundert Jahre 'SM'. Aufschreibesysteme um 1980.call_made In: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 12/4, 123-134.
- 2017. external pageMan not a Machine. Models, Machines, and Mental Labour, ca. 1980.call_made In: Modeling Brains – The Making and Use of Animal Models in Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Nikolas Rose, Tara Mahfoud, and Sam McLean (eds.), Progress in Brain Research (233).
- 2017. "Circuits, Algae, and Whipped Cream: The Biophysics of Nerve, ca. 1930". In: external pageThe History of the Brain and Mind Sciences. Technique, Technology, Therapy.call_made ed. Gavrus, Delia and Casper, Stephen. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 107-135.
- with Fabian Grütter. 2016. external pageAm Ende der Arbeit: Industriekultur und Bilderglaube.call_made In: kritische berichte 44/3, 43-52.
- with Nils Güttler / Margarete Pratschke. 2016. Download"Wissen, ca. 1980 – Editorial". (PDF, 990 KB)vertical_align_bottom In: Wissen, ca. 1980 – Nach Feierabend 2016. ed. Nils Güttler, Margarete Pratschke und Max Stadler. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 7-14.
- with Nils Güttler / Margarete Pratschke. 2016. external page"Before Critique Ran out of Steam: Die Zeitschrift »Wechselwirkung – Technik, Naturwissenschaft, Gesellschaft«, 1979–1989. Ein Interview mit Reinhard Behnisch, Barbara Orland und Elvira Scheich".call_made In: Wissen, ca. 1980 – Nach Feierabend 2016. ed. Nils Güttler, Margarete Pratschke und Max Stadler. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 15-33.
- 2015. external page"Der User".call_made In: Das Personal der Postmoderne. Inventur einer Epoche. ed. Alban Frei und Hannes Mangold. Bielefeld: Transcript, 75-90.
- with Mathias Grote. 2015. external pageSurfaces in the History of Modern Science: Inscribing, Separating, Enclosing.call_made In: Science in Context 28/3, 311-315.
- 2015. external page"Gutes Sehen, gute Beleuchtung: »lichttechnische Aufklärung« um 1930".call_made In: "Erkenne Dich selbst!". Visuelle Gesundheitsaufklärung mit Wissensobjekten aus dem Deutschen Hygiene-Museum im 20. Jahrhundert. ed. Nikolow, Sybilla. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau, 284-299.
- 2014. DownloadNeurohistory Is Bunk? - The Not-so-deep History of the Post-classical Mind. (PDF, 327 KB)vertical_align_bottom In: Isis 105/1, 133-144.
- 2013. Download"Der Geist des Users. Oder: Vom Ende des Boole'schen Traums". (PDF, 1.5 MB)vertical_align_bottom In: Nach Feierabend 2013 - Digital Humanities. ed. C. Hirschi und M. Hagner. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 55-78.
- 2012. external page"The Neurological Patient in History. A Commentary".call_made In: The Neurological Patient in History. ed. Jacyna, L.S. and Casper, S. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 223-230.
- 2011. external pageBiophysikalisches Doppelleben, 1939–1946. Oder: Räume der Lange-weile. Zur (Nicht-) Zäsur des "Informationsdiskurses".call_made In: Berichte zur WissenschaftsgeschichteVolume 34/1, 27-63.
- 2011. "Cell". In: Eine Naturgeschichte für das 21. Jahrhundert : hommage à, zu Ehren von, in honor of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. ed. Azzouni, Safia; Brandt, Christina; Gausemeier, Bernd; Kursell, Julia; Schmidgen, Henning; Wittmann, Barbara. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 217-219.
- 2011. external page"The Neuromance of Cerebral History".call_made In: Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience. ed. Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 135-158.
- 2015. external pageReview: Henning Schmidgen, Hirn und Zeit. Die Geschichte eines Experiments, 1800–1950,call_made Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2014. In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 38, 3, 260-62.
- 2015. external pageReview: Jon Agar, Science in the 20th Century and Beyond,call_made London, Polity 2012. In: New Genetics and Society.
- 2012. DownloadReview: Jimena Canales, A Tenth of a Second: A History,vertical_align_bottom 2011. In: Aestimatio 9, 374-381.
- 2011. external pageReview: Heiner Fangerau, Spinning the Scientific Web: Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) und sein Programm einer internationalen biomedizinischen Grundlagenforschung,call_made Berlin 2010. In: The British Journal for the History of Science 44, 1, 141-143.
- 2011. external pageReview: Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail (eds), Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950,call_made 2011. In: Social History of Medicine.
- 2010. external pageReview: Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain. Sketches of Another Future,call_made Chicago 2010. In: The Neuro Times.
- 2010. external pageReview: Philipp Aumann, Mode und Methode: Die Kybernetik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,call_made Göttingen 2009. In: The Neuro Times.
- Fall 2019. Seminar. Science and the New Right (completion) (with Fabian Grütter, Nils Güttler, Monika Wulz). ETH, Zurich.
- Spring 2019. Semianr. Science and the New Right. (with Fabian Grütter, Nils Güttler, Monika Wulz). ETH, Zurich.
- Spring 2018. Seminar. Zurich Airport (Kloten) - Anatomy of a Complicated Site (Completion) (with Nils Güttler). ETH, Zurich.
- Fall 2017. Lecture. People - Machines - Work. ETH, Zurich.
- Fall 2017. Seminar. Zurich Airport (Kloten): Anatomy of a Complicated Site (with Nils Güttler). ETH, Zurich.
- Spring 2017. Seminar. On the Future of Scientific Publishing (with Nils Güttler). ETH, Zurich.
- Fall 2016. Seminar. Publish or Perish, 1800-2016: On the History of Scientific Publishing (with Nils Güttler). ETH, Zurich.
- Spring 2016. Seminar. Luddites, Enemies of Progress, and Radical Scientists: Defending and Opposing Science in the 20th Century. ETH, Zurich.
- Fall 2015. Seminar. Classics in the History of Science: Approaches, History, Contexts (with Nils Güttler). ETH, Zurich.
- Spring 2015. Seminar. Mental Labour, Manual Labour: A History of Post-industrial Society (with Vera Wolff). ETH, Zurich.
- Fall 2014. Seminar. 1980 and the Emergence of New Theories (with Monika Dommann). ETH / UZ, Zurich.
- Spring 2014. Seminar. Sirens, Radio, MP3: The Science of Sounds / The Sounds of Science, 1800-2000. ETH, Zurich.
- Fall 2013. Seminar. Profit or Thruth. Science and the Economy, 1800-2000. ETH, Zurich.
- Spring 2013. Seminar. Calculating, Tabulating, Simulating - Science and Computers in the 20 Century. ETH, Zurich.
- Fall 2012. Seminar. The History of Observation in the 19th and 20 Century (with Omar Nasim). ETH, Zurich.
- Spring 2012. Seminar. Efficient People: Labour, Labourers and Labouring as Scientific Objects. ETH, Zurich.
- Fall 2011. Seminar. Besser sehen. Aspekte einer Geschichte visueller Wahrnehmung im 20. Jahrhundert (with Margarete Pratschke). ETH, Zurich.
- et al. 11.02.2018. external pageMedienökonomische Verwirrspiele der Neuen Rechten: Von Weikersheim bis No Billag.call_made In: Geschichte der Gegenwart.