Writing the present. Reflections on time and literary techniques after digitization

该研究项目将探索数字时代对时间和文学技巧的反思的相互依存关系，从而回应文学文本和文化批评中对当下的新关注，而这之前并不是深入研究的主题。无论是博客、Facebook还是Twitter被用作发布媒体、主题或文本的结构元素，数字媒体都改变了文本的写作方式、叙述方式和内容--以及对当下的思考方式。该项目的目标是研究用来反映、说明和概念化数字时代的当下和存在模式的文学技巧。根据当下的概念和实现是特定写作形式的结果的假设，当代文化批评和文学将被放在媒体和文化研究中的时间概念的背景下进行分析和关联。该项目提出了一个新的周期来评估自2000年代中期以来数字技术整合的反应，这一整合始于Web2.0、社交媒体和移动互联网的建立和普及。在这一时期，文化和媒体理论领域有大量文献将数字化与时间概念的变化联系在一起，特别是侧重于当下的概念。这些文本经常使用文学技巧，但一般不反映当代文学领域的时间诊断，通常使用视听媒体或其他网络传播形式的例子。在这方面，研究项目集中在当代文学作为一种反思时间的手段的潜力。一方面，该研究项目将对线上和线下流传的文学文本和文化理论中的修辞、意象和隐喻以及叙事模式进行比较分析。另一方面，该项目将探索文学文本的概念潜力，并展示在处理数字媒体和文化时，文学技术如何以一种新的方式勾勒或产生现在。通过将近距离阅读、隐喻和语篇分析方法联系起来，在数字语料库分析的支持下，该研究项目将1。分析文化批评中当下新话语的概念和修辞。考察当代文学典范研究中对当下的感知、描绘和反思的变化。通过将当代文学与文化批评联系起来并填补它，揭示当前关于当下概念的话语中的空白。该项目的成果将对当代文学研究产生创新的贡献，并为当代文化理论建立重要的新视角。

The research project will explore the interdependencies of reflections on time and literary techniques in the digital age, hence responding to a new focus on the present in literary texts and cultural criticism that has not previously been the subject of intensive research. Whether blogs, Facebook or Twitter are used as the publishing medium, as a topic or as a structural element of a text, digital media changes the way it is written, how and what is narrated – and how the present is thought. The goal of the project is to study literary techniques that are used to reflect on, illustrate and conceptualize the present and modes of presence in the digital age. Following the assumption that the concept and realization of the present are a result of specific forms of writing, contemporary cultural criticism and literature will be analysed and correlated against the backdrop of time concepts in media and cultural studies.With the notion ‘after digitization’, the project proposes a new periodisation to evaluate the reaction to the consolidation of digital technology since the mid-2000s, which began with the establishment and the popularization of web 2.0, social media and mobile internet. In this period, there is a remarkable amount of texts in the field of cultural and media theory that connect digitization to a change in the conceptualization of time, focussing, in particular, on the notion of the present. These texts frequently use literary techniques, but generally don’t reflect on the field of contemporary literature for their diagnoses of time and usually use examples from the field of audio-visual media or other forms of online communication. In this regard, the research project concentrates on the potential of contemporary literature as a means of reflection on time. On the one hand, the research project will make a comparative analysis of the rhetorics, images and metaphors, as well as the narrative patterns found in literary texts and cultural theory that are circulating both online and offline. On the other hand, the project will explore the conceptual potential of literary texts and show how literary techniques outline or produce the present in a new way when dealing with digital media and culture.By linking close readings, metaphorological and discourse analytical approaches, supported by digital corpus analysis, the research project will 1.) analyse concepts and rhetorics of the new discourse on the present in cultural criticism, 2.) investigate the changes in perception, portrayal and reflection of the present in exemplary studies on contemporary literature and 3.) reveal a void in the current discourse on concepts of the present by connecting contemporary literature to cultural criticism and fill it. With its results the project will produce an innovative contribution to the studies of contemporary literature and establish important new perspectives for contemporary cultural theory.