Christoph Borbach is a postdoctoral researcher at the collaborative research center “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen. Before that, he researched and taught at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Vienna and the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, among others. His research interests include the history of media and technology, epistemology and praxeology. His book Delay – Mediengeschichten der Verzögerung, 1850-1950 was published in 2024.

Max Kanderske is a researcher with the project “Navigation in Online-/Offline-Spaces at the collaborative research center “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen. His work focuses on the media and practices of navigation, game studies and sensor media and counter-practices. He is one of the editors of Navigationen – Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft and member of the editorial board of online Games Studies journal Spiel|Formen.

Preparatory reading

- Salter, Chris (2022): Sensing machines: How Sensors Shape our Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 15–40. (Chapter: “Measuring Sensation”)

- Scholz, Sebastian (2021): Sensing the ‘Contemporary Condition’: The Chronopolitics of Sensor-media. In: Krisis 41 (1), pp. 135–156.

The texts can be accessed here: https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/4StOWR7BxWadGWI