Diagnosing (in) Modernity

诊断是一种社会自我观察和问题化的模式，通过这种模式，“现代性”将自己构成为一个时代，与早期时代相比，它将“社会”概念化为“一种威胁，一个可能性的空间和一个干预的领域”（Etzemüller 2019，第105页）。该网络希望在跨学科的交流中追求这一工作假设。为此，它将诊断理解为观察当前现实的一种方式--社会、环境、个人等的“状态”--这种状态专门针对它对未来的前景，并将其转化为一种可塑造的资源。从这个意义上说，诊断往往是一个早期预警系统，应该帮助解决紧迫的问题，从而对未来产生影响：在预防可能的威胁的同时，挖掘潜力。在社会的不同领域，以各种形式，并借助各种技术，进行明确和隐含的诊断。该网络的重点是共振和回声效应，以及在这些不同的诊断之间可能出现的不和谐和冲突，在偶然的社会历史星座。它检查诊断的概念，领域，实践，叙述和霸权，特别感兴趣的是“大”诊断叙述（如气候变化或流行病的发展）和众多的“小”，而不是诊断（自己的“环境”，或身体等）不引人注目的做法之间的相互作用。在日常生活中。这项研究计划需要在放大和缩小之间系统地改变研究视角（Nicolini 2012），并结合历史谱系学方法。因此，该网络在内容和方法上建立在社会科学、人文科学和文化研究的合作基础上。它的目的是：（a）从历史和经验上提供有充分依据的见解，以了解诊断的意义和诊断现代社会及其主体的自我构成的做法;（B）为后续研究提出问题;（c）自我批判地反映网络研究议程的（例如以欧洲为中心的）前提和限制。网络的战略目标是1。提高该主题的（国际）知名度（也在更广泛的公众中），2.支持参与的早期职业研究人员，以及3。为一个更大的合作研究项目开发一个概念。

Diagnosing is a mode of social self-observation and problematisation through which 'modernity' constitutes itself as an epoch that, in contrast to earlier epochs, conceptualises 'society' "as a threat, a space of possibility and a field of intervention" (Etzemüller 2019, p. 105). The network wants to pursue this working hypothesis in an interdisciplinary exchange. To this end, it understands diagnosis as a way of observing a present reality - the 'state' of a society, the environment, an individual, etc. – that specifically adresses the prospects it holds for the future and turns it into a shapeable resource. In this sense, diagnoses, more often than not, serve as an early warning system that is supposed to help adresss pressing problems and thus impact on the future: While possible threats are to be prevented, potentials are to be exploited. Diagnoses are made both explicitly and implicitly, in different areas of society, in various forms, and with the help of diverse techniques. The network focuses on the resonances and echo effects as well as on the dissonances and conflicts that can arise among this variety of diagnoses in contingent socio-historical constellations. It examines the concepts, fields, practices, narratives and hegemonies of diagnosing and is particularly interested in the interplay between 'large' diagnostic narratives (such as climate change or pandemic developments) and the numerous 'small', rather unspectacular practices of diagnosing (of one’s own ‘environment’, or the body, etc.) in everyday life. This research programme demands a systematic change of research perspectives between zooming in and zooming out (Nicolini 2012) combined with a historical-genealogical approach. Accordingly, the network builds on a collaboration of the social sciences, the humanities and cultural studies in terms of both content and methodology. It sets out to (a) deliver historically and empirically well-founded insights into the significance of diagnoses and practices of diagnosing for the self-constitution of modern societies and their subjects, (b) generate questions for follow-up research and (c) self-critically reflect the (e.g. Eurocentric) presuppositions and limits of the network‘s research agenda. The strategic goals of the network are 1. to increase the (international) visibility of the topic (also within the broader public), 2. to support the participating early-career researchers, and 3. to develop a concept for a larger collaborative research project.