Active Member
1st September 2011 - 31st August 2014
Research Focus
- Cultural history of death
- Anthropology of sound
- Animal studies
Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Macho (*1952) is professor for cultural history at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft. He studied philosophy, musicology, and education. Currently he is preparing a publication on the critique of anthropology under the title of Tiere – Menschen – Maschinen. He was one of the co-founders of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik. Recently he was fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 2008/2009.
Selected Publications
- Kulturtechniken der Synchronisation. Wilhelm Fink München 2011 (together with Christian Kassung).
- Arme Schweine. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Nicolai Verlag Berlin 2006
- Zwischen Rauschen und Offenbarung. Zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Stimme. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 2002 (together with Friedrich Kittler & Sigrid Weigel)