Worry - Work - Technology. Poetologies of seafaring in the 19th century.

Which stories are told? Where are they told, how are they told, and by whom? The project at the DSM takes up these questions when it looks at the history of seafarers in the 19th century and asks about their concerns and work, which were significantly shaped by the techniques of their time.
Using the example of the NDL's shipping lines in colonial and imperial times, the project examines the cultural techniques of knowledge production at sea, that is, the ways in which knowledge is produced on and with the experiential medium of the ship.
Likewise, the project deals with the violent entanglements of Northern Europe with the "global South" through the history of German shipping. For the supposed history of progress of modernity would not have taken place without the care and invisible work of the people and machines on deck, as well as the people dependent on the sea on the "distant" coasts. Thus, the Janus face of history is particularly evident on the sea.