Henning Schmidgen

Henning Schmidgen is Professor of Media Theory and History of Science at Bauhaus University Weimar. Trained as a psychologist, he obtained his PhD with a thesis on Félix Guattari in 1996. His habilitation dealt with the history of experiments in 19th-century physiology and psychology. His main areas of research are historical epistemology, machine theory, and virtual laboratories. Recent books include: The Helmholtz Curves. Tracing Lost Time (New York 2014), Die Guattari Tapes (Leipzig 2019) and Horn, or The Counterside of Media (Durham 2022).