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

泛灵论/机械论。

• 批准号: 509434960
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Henning Schmidgen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur Theorie medialer Welten
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/509434960?language=en
• 关键词: Animism; Machinism.; Configurations; Critique; between

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."

在当前关于人类世的辩论中，人文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，万物有灵论同时也是人类和非人类生存模式之间交流的密码，也是把握资本主义扩张和通过克服基本的二分法来应对随之而来的生态危机的范式（例如，文化/自然、主体/客体、有生命/无生命）。在此背景下，我们的项目追求三个密切相关的目标：（a）阐述和具体说明新泛灵论对媒体研究的相关性，（B）概述和利用泛灵论对资本主义的批判的资源和观点，以及（c）为（媒体）科学和（媒体）的建设性对话打开万物有灵论话语和立场的同样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起源点之一，即费利克斯·瓜塔里与吉尔·德勒兹共同发展的“机械论”哲学，其中还包括“技术活力论”的传统（吉尔伯特·西蒙顿、乔治·坎吉勒姆、安德烈·勒罗伊-古尔汉等）。这种哲学认为机器是“交流因素”，在先进的社会条件下，机器很容易发展出“原主体性”。从方法论上讲，该项目依赖于近代科学技术史和哲学分析与批判的方法相结合，因为它已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，这些方法允许泛灵论的问题得到回答performatively，从而（自我）反射。另一方面，它们使学术界和非学术界公众越来越多地参与研究进程成为可能。我们研究的主要焦点是技术的特定生活形式（“Eigenleben”），文化与自然之间的关系，以及在这些两极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，以实现上述目标和方法：1）“机器人。吉尔伯特西蒙顿和技术问题，”2）“传播批判。Gilles Deleuze和Félix Guattari的《智能机器时代的自然哲学》，以及3）“（非）均匀性/平衡”。重新定义中间地带。"