Animism/Machinism. Configurations of Critique between Science, Art, and Technology

在当前关于人类世的辩论中，人文科学和社会科学越来越多地援引万物有灵论的话语和立场。在这方面，万物有灵论同时作为人类和非人类存在模式之间交流的密码，以及通过克服基本的二分法（例如，文化/自然，主体/客体，有生命/无生命）来把握资本主义扩张和面对随之而来的生态危机的范式。在此背景下，我们的项目追求三个紧密相连的目标：(a)详细阐述和说明新万物有灵论与媒体研究的相关性；(b)概述并利用批判资本主义的万物有灵论的资源和观点；(c)为（媒体）科学和（媒体）艺术的建设性对话开辟万物有灵论话语和立场的同等反思和实验潜力。在研究策略方面，该项目渴望将万物有灵论话语回归到其最近的一个原点，即f<s:1> lix Guattari与Gilles Deleuze共同发展的“机械论”哲学，其中还包括“技术生机论”的传统（Gilbert Simondon, Georges Canguilhem, andr<s:1> Leroi-Gourhan等）。这种哲学认为机器是一种“交流因素”，在先进的社会条件下，机器容易发展出一种“原始主体性”。在方法上，该项目依赖于近期科学技术史和哲学分析与批判方法的结合，因为它已经成为拉图尔之后媒体研究的标准。此外，我们使用艺术研究的方法。一方面，这些方法使万物有灵论的问题能够得到表现性的回答，从而（自我）反射性的回答。另一方面，它们使越来越多的学术和非学术公众参与研究过程成为可能。我们研究的主要焦点是技术的特定生命形式（“特征本”），文化与自然之间的关系，以及在这些极点之间找到新平衡的可能性。因此，我们的工作计划分为三个子项目，分别针对上述目标和方法：1)“机器生命”。吉尔伯特·西蒙顿与技术问题，《传播批判》，第2页。Gilles Deleuze和f<s:1> lix Guattari在智能机器时代的自然哲学”和3)“（非）均匀/平衡”。重新定义中间地带。”

In current debates about the Anthropocene, the humanities and social sciences increasingly invoke animistic discourses and positions. In this connection, animism appears at the same time as a cipher for communication between human and non-human modes of existence as well as a paradigm to grasp the expansion of capitalism and to confront the accompanying ecological crisis by overcoming fundamental dichotomies (e.g., culture/nature, subject/object, animate/inanimate). Against this background, our project pursues three closely connected goals: (a) to elaborate and specify the relevance of the new animism for media studies research, (b) to outline and make usable the resources and perspectives of animism that are critical of capitalism, and (c) to open up the equally reflexive and experimental potential of animist discourses and positions for the constructive dialogue of (media) science and (media) art. In terms of research strategy, the project is eager to return the animism discourse to one of its recent points of origin, namely to the philosophy of "machinism" developed by Félix Guattari with Gilles Deleuze, which also includes the tradition of "technological vitalism" (Gilbert Simondon, Georges Canguilhem, André Leroi-Gourhan, etc.). This philosophy considers machines as "communication factors" that, under advanced social conditions, are apt to develop a "proto-subjectivity". Methodologically, the project relies on a combination of approaches from recent history of science and technology and philosophical analysis and critique, as it has become a standard in media studies after Latour. In addition, we use methods of artistic research. On the one hand, these methods allow the question of animism to be answered performatively and thus (self-)reflexively. On the other hand, they make it possible to increasingly involve the academic and non-academic public in the research process. The main focus of our research is on questions of the specific form of life (“Eigenleben”) of technology, the relationship between culture and nature, and the possibility of finding a new balance between these poles. Accordingly, our work program is divided into three subprojects, which are oriented towards the aforementioned goals and methods: 1) "Machine Beings. Gilbert Simondon and the Problem of Technology," 2) "Critique of Communication. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Philosophy of Nature in the Age of Intelligent Machines," and 3) "(Un-)Evenness/BALANCE. Redefining the Middle Ground."