Entangled Island Times. A history of literature and knowledge of the Islandbiogeography between 1600 and 1850

该项目考察了在岛屿调查中，哪些不同的不同时间形成了特征。从系统的角度来看，它特别感兴趣的是自然时间(有地质时间和生物时间的两种变体)和文化时间(有欧洲-西方时间概念的两种变体和民族学上的外来时间概念)之间的紧张关系。它旨在批判这些隐含的人类中心主义的时间观，并用新唯物主义的纠缠时间观来对抗它们。在这种对物质时间性的理论重新确定的基础上，该项目历史地聚焦于1600年至1850年之间的时代，即18世纪末时间理论转向之前、期间和之后的几年。这些项目的主题是热带和南海岛屿，在欧洲人和岛上居民的第一次接触中，关于时间的文化观念形成了特别鲜明的对比。关于纪律性，该项目以文学研究为中心，从这一角度考虑了物质美学和鲜明的时间性；此外，它还从本质上整合了民族学问题以及岛屿生物地理学的科学观点，特别是动物生态学和气候学。因此，要分析的语料库包括1600年至1850年间关于岛屿的文学、纪录片、人种学、动物学和地理学的欧洲文本。它将审查这些文本在多大程度上含蓄或明确地协商时间现象，它们在多大程度上体现了不同时间形式之间的紧张关系，在哪里可以找到无视欧洲时间制度的独特文化-土著时间的隐秘痕迹，以及不同的时间是如何作为不断发展的贸易全球化和相关的岛屿网络的一部分而相互交织在一起的，从而使像纠缠的岛屿时间这样的东西作为一种历史现象演变为一种历史现象。由此产生的问题是，作为18世纪末时间理论转向的一部分，殖民欧洲人的岛屿时代在多大程度上发生了变化，反过来，殖民岛屿时代如何促进了我们现代时间观念的发展，以及审美程序在这一过程中扮演了什么角色，这一过程既可以在文字游记和虚构的岛屿叙事中找到，也可以在对岛屿的自然历史和民族志描述中找到。

The project examines which different distinct time forms feature in the investigation of islands. From a systematic perspective, it is especially interested in the tension between a nature-time (with its two variants of a geological and a biological time) and a culture-time (with its two variants of a European-Western conception of time and an ethnologically foreign conception of time). It aims at criticizing these conceptions of time with regard to their implicit anthropocentrism and confronting them with the new-materialistic concept of an entangled time. On the basis of this theoretical redetermination of a material temporality, the project focuses historically on the era between 1600 and 1850, that means the years before, during and after the time-theoretical turn in the late 18th century. The projects subject foci are tropical and South Sea Islands, for which in the first contact between Europeans and islanders there are particularly sharp contrasts concerning the cultural conception of time. With regard to disciplinarity, the project has its center in literary studies and from this standpoint considers the aesthetics of a material distinct temporality; in addition it also integrates constitutively ethnological questions as well as scientific perspectives of the islandbiogeography, especially animal ecology and climatology. Accordingly, the corpus to be analyzed consists of literary, documentary, ethnographic, zoological and geographic European texts about islands from the years between 1600 and 1850. It will be examined to what extent these texts implicitly or explicitly negotiate phenomena of time, to what extent they feature the tension between different time forms, where covert traces of a distinctive cultural-indigenous time can be found which defy the European regime of time, and finally how the different temporalities become intertwined as part of the progressing globalization of trade and the related networking of islands, so that something like an Entangled Island Time evolves as a historical phenomenon. Out of this, the question emerges to what extent the island-times of the colonializing Europeans change as part of the time-theoretical turn of the late 18th century and how vice versa the colonial island-times have contributed to the development of our modern conception of time and which role aesthetic procedures play in this process, which can be found as much in natural-historic and ethnographic accounts of islands as in literalized travelogues and fictional island narratives.