Thomas Macho

Thomas Macho has been a professor for cultural history at Berlin’s Humboldt-Universität since 1993, where he co-founded the interdisciplinary Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik. From 2006 to 2008 he served as dean (Philosophische Fakultät III, Humboldt-Universität), from 2008 to 2009 he was senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and from 2009 to 2011 he served as director at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His dissertation was entitled “Zur Dialektik des musikalischen Kunstwerks,” and his publications include Tiere, Menschen, Maschinen: Zur Kritik der Anthropologie (2013), and Das zeremonielle Tier: Rituale, Feste, Zeiten zwischen den Zeiten (2004).

As of February 2013