FOR 2600: Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Historisch-kulturelle Dynamiken

DFG研究单位2600“歧义与区分”。《历史与文化动力学》将歧义概念与区别概念联系在一起。在此过程中，它关注的是性别、种族和宗教的模糊性。根据研究单位的假设，正是在这种歧义和区别之间的关系中触发了动态。对这些动态的探索开辟了全新的见解。与此同时，研究股假定观察者- -无论是个人、机构、艺术品、宗教等等- -一再遇到他们无法用他们喜欢的区别来把握的现象。因此，研究单位的歧义概念是严格的建构主义。现象并非“天生”模棱两可。相反，模棱两可总是只存在于观察中。因此，一个观察者所感知和传达的模棱两可的东西对另一个观察者来说可能是相当明确的。对于研究单位来说，模棱两可的情况代表了“原始场景”，迫使各自的行动者根据他们所感知的模棱两可采取行动。歧义开启了遵循区分的两个方面的可能性，因此通常的路径依赖被中断。研究单位对这种模棱两可的情况的开放性以及它们所引发的几乎不可预测的动态感兴趣。在第二个供资期间，研究股的重点是模糊性的干扰。它询问一种区分的模糊性是否以及如何影响另一种区分的操作。重叠是否会在某些地方或某些现象中加强或消除对比？可以观察到歧义和区别的使用之间有什么相互作用，这些干扰对歧义产生的历史文化动态有什么影响？是否存在某种社会中继使这种干扰效应成为可能？通过回答这些问题，研究单位旨在区分歧义的概念，歧义迄今主要被用作时代或文化的诊断，以便用它来揭示歧义引发的多种复杂动态。

The DFG Research Unit 2600 “Ambiguity and Distinction. Historical and Cultural Dynamics” ties the concept of ambiguity to the concept of distinction. In doing so, it focuses on the ambiguity of gender, race, and religion. According to the Research Unit's hypothesis, it is in this relation between ambiguity and distinction that dynamics are triggered. The exploration of these dynamics opens up fundamentally new insights. At the same time, the Research Unit assumes that observers - be they persons, institutions, works of art, religions, etc. - repeatedly encounter phenomena that they cannot grasp with the distinctions with which they prefer to operate. The Research Unit's concept of ambiguity is thus strictly constructivist. Phenomena are not "inherently" ambiguous. Rather, ambiguity always exists only in observation. What one observer perceives and communicates as ambiguous can therefore be quite unambiguous for another. For the Research Unit, situations of ambiguity represent, as it were, "primal scenes" that force the respective actors to act on the ambiguity they perceive. Ambiguity opens up the possibility of following both sides of a distinction, so that the usual path dependencies are interrupted. The Research Unit is interested precisely in this openness of ambiguous situations and in the almost unpredictable dynamics they trigger. In its second funding period, the Research Unit focuses on interferences of ambiguities. It asks whether and how the ambiguity of one distinction influences the operation of another distinction. Do overlaps occur which reinforce or level contrasts at certain places, or with respect to certain phenomena? What interactions of ambiguities and the use of distinctions can be observed and what influence do these interferences have on the historical-cultural dynamics that emanate from ambiguity? Are there certain social relays that make such interference effects probable?By answering these questions, the Research Unit aims to differentiate the concept of ambiguity, which has so far mostly been used as a diagnosis of epochs or cultures, in order to use it to uncover the manifold and complex dynamics triggered by ambiguity.