Cosmogony meets extinction in literary texts and graphic narratives. The aesthetics and politics of nostalgic aetiologies

在气候变化和生物多样性丧失的背景下，越来越多的文学和图形叙事将宇宙和(自然或文化)进化的故事与动物物种和整个人类即将灭绝的情景结合在一起。为了讲述这些故事，文学文本和漫画不仅借鉴了神话、宗教和科学的病因学，而且通过将(多样化的，有时被误导的)起源设定为(过去和未来)厄运的基础，从病因学上论证了自己。这种时间和因果的“双重视野”是个人研究项目的核心，将扩大和多样化研究单位对病因学的理解。精选的叙事有意将事实和虚构融合在一起，结合了来自不同话语和历史背景的图像，寻求将自然科学的解释诗化，并提供了中世纪兽类和长诗等传统体裁的实验性变体。该项目以不同语言的例子为重点，分析了这些文本和漫画传达病因学讲故事的多重时间性和递归策略的媒体特有方式，并试图将怀旧的回顾转化为审美体验和政治意识。

Against the backdrop of climate change and loss of biodiversity, a rising number of literary and graphic narratives combine cosmogonies and stories of (natural or cultural) evolution with scenarios of impending extinction of animal species and humanity at large. In order to tell these stories, literary texts and comics not only draw on mythical, religious and scientific aetiologies but argue aetiologically themselves by setting (diverse and sometimes misled) origins as foundational for (past and future) doom. This temporal and causal ‘double vision’ is at the heart of the individual research project and will expand and diversify the research unit’s understanding of aetiology. The selected narratives deliberately amalgamate facts and fiction, combine images from diverse discourses and historical backgrounds, seek to poeticize explanations from the natural sciences, and offer experimental variations of traditional genres such as medieval bestiaries and the long poem. Focusing on examples from different languages, the project analyzes the media-specific ways in which these texts and comics convey the multiple temporalities and recursive strategies of aetiological storytelling and seek to turn nostalgic retrospection into aesthetic experience and political awareness.