DFG-Kolleg-Forschergruppe MECS (Medienkulturen der Computersimulation)
Organisational unit: Projectteam
Organisation profile
Computer simulations have revolutionised the sciences. Their impact left a mark in nearly every possible field of study – from microbiology, to climate research, and even astrophysics.
What new kinds of knowledge arise through computer simulations? How do they change our understanding of the sciences?
At the Institute of Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), we set out to find answers to these broad questions. We seek to accomplish this in diverse ways: by analysing historical and contemporary case studies , by building an interdisciplinary network of international fellows , and by organising trans-disciplinary lectures, workshops, and conferences .
In an age of computer simulations, MECS is one of the few institutions worldwide specifically focused on understanding their wide-ranging impacts.
- Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- Published
Vollstes Verständnis: Utopien der Kommunikation
Pias, C. (ed.) & Rieger, S. (ed.), 02.2016, 1 ed. Berlin / Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 208 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- Collected editions and anthologies › Transfer
- Published
Critique and the Digital
Hörl, E. (ed.), Pinkrah, N. Y. (ed.) & Warnsholdt, C. L. (ed.), 2021, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag. 296 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Transfer
- Monographs › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
Angels of Efficiency: A Media History of Consulting
Hoof, F., 28.05.2020, New York: Oxford University Press. 392 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
- Published
Ankunft einer Katze: Geschichte und Theorie der ersten Computersimulation eines Lebewesens
Konstantinow, N. N., Velminski, W. (ed.) & Warnke, M. (ed.), 25.02.2019, 1 ed. Berlin: ciconia ciconia Verlag. 143 p. (ciconia ciconia; vol. 23)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Mit allem rechnen: Zur Philosophie der Computersimulation
Lenhard, J., 03.2015, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. 222 p. (Ideen & Argumente)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
- Monographs › Research › Peer-reviewed
- Published
Ballons: Medien und Techniken früher Luftfahrten
Zindel, H., 2020, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 191 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Medium, messenger, transmission: an approach to media philosophy
Krämer, S., 20.03.2015, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 270 p. (Recursions : theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
- Published
The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830
Wellmann, J., 03.2017, New York: Zone Books. 423 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
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Zootechnologies. A Media History of Swarm Research
Vehlken, S. & Pakis, V., 28.10.2019, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 400 p. (Recursions)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review
- Special Journal issue › Research
- Published
Faktizitäten: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 19 (10/2, 2018)
Vehlken, S. (ed.) & Schauerte, E. (ed.), 2018, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 100 p. (Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft; vol. 10, no. 2)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research