Aesthetic Temporalities of Literary Physics

该项目涉及自十七世纪以来在科学物理学和文学实践和诗学的程序，理论和应用之间的相互作用中出现的审美时间性的不同星座。首先，它考察了物理时间性的不同维度，由此相关的物理行为体，即人，物体，程序，文本和理论的关系，由这种时间联系决定。第二，它将物理学和文学特别置于一种历史上有区别的关系中，就其时间性而言：在这里，重点是两个领域之间的转移过程和贸易区的构成，也考虑到其他领域。第三，主要关注文学如何在物理科学中为自己的时间元素找到灵感，以及如何将物理学的不同时间成分融入其文本，并进一步将其发展为独立的元素，从而扩展其自身的诗学可能性。三个研究视角将使上述焦点成为可能。首先，它们是根据四种与物理学中的时间理论有关的范式（经典力学、热力学、相对论、量子物理学）组织起来的，并且能够实现历史规范，同时每一种范式都与时间性的特定方面有关。第二，四个转移区域（文本表现/普及，程序，投机，技术应用）将有助于分析物理学和文学之间的关系的主要方面。第三，对时间数字定理的进一步理论阐述将使时间的不可思议的维度能够在批判性文本分析中得到研究。这方面也可能是优先方案感兴趣的，超出了本项目的具体主题。因此，该项目旨在将物理学视为科学生产和时间反映的最重要领域之一，并通过研究与文学的转移点，确定这一知识体系的文化生产力。具体而言，这将在三个方面进行：首先，将澄清研究问题的理论基础及其方法论途径;第二，第一篇论文项目将调查科学程序和文本表现的相互作用，为实验时间性的构成，第三，第二篇论文将分析理论，投机，和科技的例子。

The project addresses the diverse constellations of aesthetic temporality that have emerged since the seventeenth century in the interplay between the procedures, theories, and applications of scientific physics and literary practices and poetics. It investigates, first, the different dimensions of physical temporality, whereby relationship of relevant physical actants, that is, persons, objects, procedures, texts and theories, are determined by such temporal connections. Second, it places physics and literature in particular into a historically differentiated relationship with respect to their temporality: here, the focus is on processes of transference and the constitution of trading zones between both areas, also taking additional fields into account. Third, however, the main focus is on the question of how literature finds inspiration for its own temporal elements in the physical sciences and how it incorporates the different temporal components of physics into its texts, further develops them into independent elements and thus expands its own poetological possibilities.Three research perspectives shall enable access to the aforementioned focal points. First of all, they are organized according to four paradigms that pertain to the theory of time in physics (classical mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity theory, quantum physics) and enable a historical specification, while also each relating to specific aspects of temporality. Second, four zones of transference (textual manifestation/popularization, procedure, speculation, technical application) will help to analyze major facets of the relationship between physics and literature. And third, further theoretical elaboration of the theorem of the time figure will enable the inconceivable dimensions of time to be investigated in critical textual analyses. This aspect could also be of interest for the Priority Program above and beyond the concrete topic of this project. The project thus seeks to treat physics as one of the most important areas of the scientific production and reflection of time and, through the study of points of transference with literature, to identify the cultural productivity of this body of knowledge. Concretely, this will happen in three areas of work: first, the theoretical foundations of the research question and its methodological approach will be clarified; second, a first dissertation project will investigate the interplay of scientific procedures and textual manifestations for the constitution of experimental temporality and, third, a second dissertation will analyze the connection between theory, speculation, and technology using the example of time travel.