Wolfgang Ernst is trained as a Historian and in Classics (Latin Philology and Classical Archaeology), with an ongoing interest in cultural temporalities before growing into the emergent technology-oriented »German school« of media science.

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Wolfgang Ernst's academic focus had been on archival theory and museology, before moving to media materialities. Since 2003, Ernst is Professor for Media Theories at the Institute for Musicology and Media Science at Humboldt University in Berlin. His current research covers »radical« media archaeology as method, the epistemology of technológos, the theory of technical storage, the technologies of cultural transmission, micro-temporal media aesthetics and their chronopoetic potentials, and sound analytics (»sonicity«) from a media-epistemological point of view. A list of his books published in English and with a focus on technical media are: Digital Memory and the Archive (2013); Chronopoetics. The temporal being and operativity of technological media (2016); Sonic Time Machines. Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices and Implicit Sonicity in Terms of Media Knowledge (2016); The Delayed Present. Media-induced interventions into contempor(e)alities (Sternberg Press) 2017.