The nature-cultural Memory in the Anthropocene – Archives, Literatures and Media of Earth History

人类世的自然文化记忆——地球历史档案、文学和媒体

• 批准号: 529500909
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Gabriele Dürbeck
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fach Kulturwissenschaften
• 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/529500909?language=en
• 关键词: nature; cultural; Memory; Anthropocene; Archives

The project aims to formulate for the first time a theory of nature-cultural memory in the Anthropocene and, on this basis, to investigate how literature and media function as nature-cultural archives and media of Earth history. The Anthropocene concept, which treats humanity as a globally dominant geophysical force, has also been established as a cultural concept since about 2010. By bringing together human and Earth history, it contributes to a new self-understanding of humanity. In this process, archives of Earth history (e.g. ice cores, sedimentary layers) play an important role as anchor points for new narratives of a human history in the horizon of geological deep time. Whereas previous research in Cultural Memory Studies has worked strictly within the epistemological boundaries of the nature-culture divide, the integration of Earth history and archives of nature into public and political discourses requires a broader conceptualization of cultural memory. Contributing to the interdisciplinary research field of Environmental Humanities, the project addresses the question through which scientific practices, institutions, and representation processes in various media Earth history is constructed as a framework that co-constitutes human identities. The project thus pursues three goals: (1) the formulation of a theory of nature-cultural memory will contribute to the expansion of Cultural Memory Studies; (2) a discourse-analytical investigation of scientific texts on nature-cultural archives from the multidisciplinary Anthropocene discourse will provide an understanding of the constitution of a nature-cultural interpretive power; and (3) a literary, knowledge-poetological and media-aesthetic analysis of the different modes of representation in nature-cultural memory processes will investigate how earth-historical orientation knowledge is constituted and communicated as a framework for responsibly shaping the future. In the first of four subprojects (SP), the theoretical concepts of cultural archives and cultural memory will be extended to include archives of nature and the construction of a nature-cultural memory. On this basis, the SP2 and SP3 will then analyze the representation of Earth history in anthropocenic literature since 2000 as well as in selected media (environmental documentary film, media artworks, exhibitions, archival and art projects). The comparative literary and media analyses guided by the new theoretical framework developed in the project and their results will form the basis for a critical reflection on the potentials and limits of a theory of nature-cultural memory in SP4. The results of the project will be presented for discussion in various formats (1 international conference, 4 essays, 1 anthology, idea lab, monograph).

该项目旨在首次形成人类世的自然文化记忆理论，并在此基础上研究文学和媒体如何作为自然文化档案和地球历史媒体发挥作用。人类世（Anthropocene）的概念将人类视为全球主导的地球物理力量，大约从2010年开始，它也被确立为一种文化概念。通过将人类和地球的历史结合在一起，它有助于对人类进行新的自我理解。在这一过程中，地球历史档案（如冰芯、沉积层）作为锚点在地质深时间的地平线上对人类历史的新叙述发挥了重要作用。鉴于文化记忆研究的先前研究严格地在自然-文化鸿沟的认识论界限内进行，将地球历史和自然档案整合到公共和政治话语中需要更广泛的文化记忆概念化。为环境人文学科的跨学科研究领域做出贡献，该项目解决了这样一个问题，即通过科学实践、制度和各种媒体中的地球历史表现过程，将其构建为共同构成人类身份的框架。因此，本项目追求三个目标：(1)自然-文化记忆理论的形成将有助于文化记忆研究的扩展；(2)对多学科人类世话语中关于自然文化档案的科学文本进行话语分析研究，将有助于理解自然文化解释力的构成；(3)对自然-文化记忆过程中不同表现模式的文学、知识-诗学和媒介-美学分析将探讨地球历史取向知识是如何构成和传播的，并作为负责任地塑造未来的框架。在四个子项目（SP）的第一个子项目中，文化档案和文化记忆的理论概念将扩展到包括自然档案和自然-文化记忆的构建。在此基础上，SP2和SP3将分析自2000年以来人类世文学以及选定媒体（环境纪录片、媒体艺术品、展览、档案和艺术项目）中地球历史的表现。在项目新理论框架的指导下，比较文学和媒体分析及其结果将构成SP4对自然-文化记忆理论潜力和局限性的批判性反思的基础。项目结果将以各种形式（1次国际会议，4篇论文，1本选集，思想实验室，专著）进行讨论。