Martina Heßler is Professor of History of Technology at TU Darmstadt since February 2019. Previously, she was (since 2010) Professor of Modern Social History, Economic History, and History of Technology at Helmut Schmidt University, Bundeswehr University Hamburg, and since 2006 of Cultural History and History of Technology at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach.
She is currently working on the history and present of the man-machine relationship.
Selected Publications:
Kulturgeschichte der Technik. Frankfurt/New York 2012.
Published in cooperation with Heike Weber: Provokationen der Technikgeschichte. Zum Reflexionszwang historischer Forschung, Frankfurt am Main 2019.
In there: Menschen – Maschinen – MenschMaschinen in Zeit und Raum. Perspektiven einer Historischen Technikanthropologie.
Technik und Autonomie, in: Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen/Anemarie Karacic (Hg.): Autonome Systeme und Arbeit. Perspektiven, Herausforderungen und Grenzen der Künstlichen Intelligenz in der Arbeitswelt, Bielefeld 2019, S. 247-274