Knowing Tomorrow 2.0:Native North American Archives of Futurity

认识明天2.0：北美本土未来档案馆

• 批准号: 413065738
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Birgit Däwes
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/413065738?language=en
• 关键词: Knowing; Tomorrow; 2.0; Native; North

In Western discourse from J.F. Cooper’s 'noble savages' to J. Cameron’s Avatar, Indigenous American cultures have always been displaced into nostalgic obsolescence and thus deprived of a future in Western culture. In contrast to these codes of outdatedness, Indigenous cultural expressions abound with imaginaries of the future in textual narratives, digital media, visual arts, and public spaces, such as museums or websites. From pre-contact prophecies to contemporary Indigenous video games, writers, artists, and curators such as Gerald Vizenor, Kent Monkman, Elizabeth LaPensée, Skawennati, and Danis Goulet have contributed to a vast, underresearched corpus of Indigenous futurity that defies colonial temporality, empowers alternative modes of knowledge, envisions sustainable societies and thus harbors highly relevant cultural capital for designs of a global future.Relying on previous research from the fields of Native literatures and (science) fiction, this project instigates a systematic exploration of Indigenous North American engagements of temporality and the future in museums and digital environments. Since the meanings of such concepts as "future", "modernity", and "indigeneity" are circulated and generated through the cultural products of narratives, visual media, museum exhibitions, and virtual worlds, Knowing Tomorrow 2.0 will analyze these within the conceptual framework of an Indigenous “archive”—in Jacques Derrida’s sense as “an irreducible experience of the future”—that resists linear concepts of history and provides a larger theoretical matrix for questions of knowledge, cultural difference, political and social identities.With case studies on (1) nation-specific and pan-tribal museums in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Arizona, and Oklahoma and (2) Indigenous digital media, virtual reality projects, video games, and online presences, Knowing Tomorrow 2.0 is dedicated to the following four complementary research objectives: - to establish a semantics of Indigenous futurity by extrapolating narrative, visual, and virtual patterns in the representational archives of museums and digital platforms- to explore the ways in which futurity and “temporal sovereignty” (Rifkin 2017) resonate with public representations of history- to locate Indigenous representations of time and temporality within a larger matrix of alternative systems of knowledge - to identify the strategies by which these alternative modes of knowledge are communicated within and across cultural and national boundariesThis project’s research is not only thematically about the future, but it also seeks to create interculturally sensitive understandings of time for the future. Knowing Tomorrow 2.0 thus promises to break new ground for current understandings of futurity and temporality across cultural boundaries; it will allow for revisions of hegemonic historiography, expand North American canons, and open new corridors for Indigenous studies and American studies.

在从J.F.库珀的《高贵的野蛮人》到J.卡梅隆的《阿凡达》的西方话语中，美国土著文化一直被取代，陷入怀旧过时，从而被剥夺了在西方文化中的未来。与这些过时的代码形成对比的是，土著文化表达在文本叙事、数字媒体、视觉艺术和公共空间(如博物馆或网站)中充满了未来的想象。从接触前的预言到当代的土著视频游戏，作家、艺术家和策展人，如Gerald Vizenor、Kent Monkman、Elizabeth LaPensée、Skawennati和Danis Goulet，贡献了一个庞大的、研究不足的土著未来语料库，它挑战殖民时间性，赋予替代的知识模式，设想可持续的社会，从而为全球未来的设计提供高度相关的文化资本。这个项目依赖于土著文学和(科幻)小说领域的先前研究，系统地探索北美土著的时间性和博物馆和数字环境中的未来。由于“未来”、“现代性”和“原住民”等概念的含义是通过叙事、视觉媒体、博物馆展览和虚拟世界的文化产品传播和产生的，所以Knowledge Tomorrow 2.0将在土著“档案馆”的概念框架内分析这些概念框架--在雅克·德里达的意义上是“对未来的不可还原的体验”--抵制线性历史概念，为知识、文化差异、政治和社会身份问题提供更大的理论矩阵。以(1)位于亚利桑那州北卡罗来纳州华盛顿特区的特定国家和泛部落博物馆为例，和俄克拉荷马州以及(2)土著数字媒体、虚拟现实项目、视频游戏和在线存在，Knowing Tomorrow 2.0致力于以下四个互补的研究目标：-通过外推叙事、视觉、博物馆和数字平台代表性档案中的时间和虚拟模式--探索未来和“时间主权”(Rifkin 2017)如何与公众对历史的表征产生共鸣--在更大的替代知识体系矩阵中定位对时间和时间性的土著表征--确定这些替代知识模式在文化和国家边界内和跨国界交流的策略该项目的研究不仅是关于未来的主题，而且还试图建立对未来的跨文化敏感的时间理解。因此，《知道明天》2.0有望为当前对未来和跨文化边界的时间性的理解开辟新的天地；它将允许修改霸权史学，扩大北美正典，并为土著研究和美国研究开辟新的走廊。