Aesthetic Temporalities of Literary Physics

该项目阐述了自17世纪以来在科学物理、文学实践和诗学的程序、理论和应用之间的相互作用中出现的审美时间性的多样化星座。它首先考察了物理时间性的不同维度，由此确定了相关的物理行为者之间的关系，即人、对象、程序、文本和理论的时间联系。其次，它特别将物理学和文学置于一种关于它们的时间性的历史差异关系中：这里，重点放在这两个领域之间的转移过程和贸易区的构建上，并考虑到其他领域。然而，第三，主要关注的是文学如何在物理科学中为其自身的时间元素找到灵感，以及它如何将物理学的不同时间成分纳入其文本，进一步将它们发展为独立的元素，从而扩展其自身的诗学可能性。三个研究视角将使人们能够接触到上述焦点。首先，它们是根据与物理学中的时间理论(经典力学、热力学、相对论、量子物理)有关的四种范式来组织的，并实现了历史规范，同时每一种范式也与时间性的特定方面有关。其次，四个转换区域(文本表现/普及、程序、推测、技术应用)将有助于分析物理与文学之间关系的主要方面。第三，对时间图形定理的进一步理论阐述将使我们能够在批评性文本分析中考察时间的不可思议的维度。除了这个项目的具体主题之外，这一方面也可能对优先方案感兴趣。因此，该项目寻求将物理学作为科学生产和反映时间的最重要领域之一，并通过研究与文学的转换点来确定这一知识体系的文化生产力。具体地说，这将在三个方面进行：第一，将澄清研究问题的理论基础及其方法；第二，第一篇论文项目将调查科学程序和文本表现对实验时间性构成的相互作用；第三，第二篇论文将以时间旅行为例分析理论、推测和技术之间的联系。

The project addresses the diverse constellations of aesthetic temporality that have emerged since the seventeenth century in the interplay between the procedures, theories, and applications of scientific physics and literary practices and poetics. It investigates, first, the different dimensions of physical temporality, whereby relationship of relevant physical actants, that is, persons, objects, procedures, texts and theories, are determined by such temporal connections. Second, it places physics and literature in particular into a historically differentiated relationship with respect to their temporality: here, the focus is on processes of transference and the constitution of trading zones between both areas, also taking additional fields into account. Third, however, the main focus is on the question of how literature finds inspiration for its own temporal elements in the physical sciences and how it incorporates the different temporal components of physics into its texts, further develops them into independent elements and thus expands its own poetological possibilities.Three research perspectives shall enable access to the aforementioned focal points. First of all, they are organized according to four paradigms that pertain to the theory of time in physics (classical mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity theory, quantum physics) and enable a historical specification, while also each relating to specific aspects of temporality. Second, four zones of transference (textual manifestation/popularization, procedure, speculation, technical application) will help to analyze major facets of the relationship between physics and literature. And third, further theoretical elaboration of the theorem of the time figure will enable the inconceivable dimensions of time to be investigated in critical textual analyses. This aspect could also be of interest for the Priority Program above and beyond the concrete topic of this project. The project thus seeks to treat physics as one of the most important areas of the scientific production and reflection of time and, through the study of points of transference with literature, to identify the cultural productivity of this body of knowledge. Concretely, this will happen in three areas of work: first, the theoretical foundations of the research question and its methodological approach will be clarified; second, a first dissertation project will investigate the interplay of scientific procedures and textual manifestations for the constitution of experimental temporality and, third, a second dissertation will analyze the connection between theory, speculation, and technology using the example of time travel.