Werdegang

Flo­ri­an Spren­ger stu­di­ed me­dia stu­dies and phi­lo­so­phy at Bo­chum and Wei­mar. He was mem­ber of the gra­dua­te school Sen­ses - Tech­ni­que - Mise en scène at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vi­en­na, ju­ni­or fel­low at the In­ter­na­tio­nal Re­se­arch Cent­re for Cul­tu­ral Stu­dies at Vi­en­na and at the gra­dua­te school Me­dia of His­to­ry, His­to­ries of Me­dia at Wei­mar and Er­furt. Af­ter fi­nis­hing his PhD on “Me­dia of Im­me­di­a­cy - Electri­ci­ty, Te­le­gra­phy, McLu­han”, he was vi­sit­ing scho­lar at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty and Post­Doc at the Gra­dua­te Cent­re for the Stu­dy of Cul­tu­re at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Gießen. His re­se­arch to­pics are the ge­neao­lo­gy of me­dia theo­ry, the his­to­ry of electri­ci­ty, in­fra­struc­tu­res of ubi­qui­tous com­pu­ting, me­diaar­chi­tec­tu­res and the fu­ture in ge­ne­ral.