Bernhard Siegert

Bernhard Siegert was from 2001 until 2025 Gerd Bucerius Professor for the History and Theory of Cultural Techniques at Bauhaus Universität Weimar. From 2008 to 2020 he was co-director of the International Research Center for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy at Weimar (IKKM). From 2021 until 2025 he led the project “The New Real—Past, Present, and Future of Computation and the Ecologization of Cultural Techniques” funded by the NOMIS Foundation. Siegert has held numerous visiting professorships and scholarships at (among others) UC Santa Barbara, New York University, University of British Columbia, Stockholm University, University of Cambridge, Freie Universität Berlin, and Harvard University. His most recent book is FINAL FRONTIERS. Eine Medienarchäologie des Meeres (Fink/Brill 2024, an English translation is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press in 2026).