FOR 2600: Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Historisch-kulturelle Dynamiken

DFG研究单位2600“模糊性和区分。历史和文化动力学”将歧义的概念与区分的概念联系起来。在这样做时，它侧重于性别，种族和宗教的模糊性。根据研究股的假设，正是在模糊和区别之间的这种关系中触发了动态。对这些动态的探索开辟了全新的见解。同时，研究股假定观察者-无论是个人、机构、艺术作品、宗教等等-反复遇到他们无法用他们喜欢的区别来把握的现象。因此，研究股的歧义概念是严格的建构主义。现象并非“固有的”模棱两可。相反，模糊性只存在于观察中。因此，一个观察者所感知和传达的模棱两可的东西，对另一个观察者来说可能是非常明确的。对研究股来说，模棱两可的情况可以说是“原始场景”，迫使有关行为者就他们所认为的模棱两可采取行动。模糊性开辟了遵循区别双方的可能性，因此通常的路径依赖性被中断。研究股感兴趣的正是这种模棱两可的情况的公开性及其引发的几乎不可预测的动态。在第二个资助期，研究股的重点是模糊性的干扰。它询问一个区别的模糊性是否以及如何影响另一个区别的操作。在某些地方或某些现象上，是否发生了加强或消除对比的重叠？可以观察到歧义和区分的使用之间的什么样的相互作用，这些干扰对由歧义产生的历史文化动态有什么样的影响？是否存在某些社会中继，使这种干扰效应成为可能？通过回答这些问题，研究股的目的是区分歧义的概念，这是迄今为止主要被用来作为一个时代或文化的诊断，以便用它来揭示由歧义引发的多方面和复杂的动态。

The DFG Research Unit 2600 “Ambiguity and Distinction. Historical and Cultural Dynamics” ties the concept of ambiguity to the concept of distinction. In doing so, it focuses on the ambiguity of gender, race, and religion. According to the Research Unit's hypothesis, it is in this relation between ambiguity and distinction that dynamics are triggered. The exploration of these dynamics opens up fundamentally new insights. At the same time, the Research Unit assumes that observers - be they persons, institutions, works of art, religions, etc. - repeatedly encounter phenomena that they cannot grasp with the distinctions with which they prefer to operate. The Research Unit's concept of ambiguity is thus strictly constructivist. Phenomena are not "inherently" ambiguous. Rather, ambiguity always exists only in observation. What one observer perceives and communicates as ambiguous can therefore be quite unambiguous for another. For the Research Unit, situations of ambiguity represent, as it were, "primal scenes" that force the respective actors to act on the ambiguity they perceive. Ambiguity opens up the possibility of following both sides of a distinction, so that the usual path dependencies are interrupted. The Research Unit is interested precisely in this openness of ambiguous situations and in the almost unpredictable dynamics they trigger. In its second funding period, the Research Unit focuses on interferences of ambiguities. It asks whether and how the ambiguity of one distinction influences the operation of another distinction. Do overlaps occur which reinforce or level contrasts at certain places, or with respect to certain phenomena? What interactions of ambiguities and the use of distinctions can be observed and what influence do these interferences have on the historical-cultural dynamics that emanate from ambiguity? Are there certain social relays that make such interference effects probable?By answering these questions, the Research Unit aims to differentiate the concept of ambiguity, which has so far mostly been used as a diagnosis of epochs or cultures, in order to use it to uncover the manifold and complex dynamics triggered by ambiguity.