(Mis)navigating Island Topoi: The Island as Site of Speculation, Invention, and Experimentation

岛屿在西方思想史上扮演着复杂而独特的角色。由于其孤立的条件，它们一再被认为是与他者相遇的地方。这类岛屿不是故意发现的，而是通过错误的航行（乌托邦）或沉船（普洛斯彼罗岛）发现的。从历史上看，该岛是投机、发明和实验的场所，并由此产生了特定的岛屿拓扑。这个设计博士通过一系列作品探索这些主题，这些作品批判性地参与了他们的文化和物质历史，从斯威夫特的拉普塔到Kafka的流放地到比基尼环礁，等等。从荷马的《奥德赛》（3000年前）、克里斯托福罗·布德尔蒙蒂的《伊索拉里奥》（1418年）、托马斯摩尔的《乌托邦》（1516年）、威廉·莎士比亚的《暴风雨》（1611年）、乔纳森·斯威夫特的《格列佛游记》（1726年）到弗朗茨·Kafka的《在流放地》（1919年），岛屿一直是想象、探究和批判的场所。虽然这些开创性的作品展示了岛屿的吸引力及其在文学中的反复出现，但它们也预测了岛屿作为现代性主题的出现;改变和调查的空间。无论它们是乌托邦式的领土、殖民话语的场所，还是对现有政治环境的寓言式批评，我们都知道，孤立是所有岛屿的状况。所有这些都有其共同的特点和局限性，因此提供了一个适合测试和知识开发的“封闭”环境。岛屿奖学金的语料库是一个不断扩大的理论和概念研究领域，连接社会科学，自然科学和人文科学。在《利维坦与气泵：霍布斯、波义耳与实验生活》一书中，沙平和谢弗将科学史与政治思想史联系起来。他们的文本成为一个试验场--展示实验研究的有效性和不同知识体系的交叉。岛屿就像培养皿一样，为培养孤立的思维细胞提供了“安全”的环境;从达尔文在加拉帕戈斯群岛上的进化研究到比基尼环礁上的贝克核试验。通过设计博士将通过岛屿作为现象的场所，通过跨学科和综合的工作模式，实现破坏性的现实。通过学科和主题定义绘制博士设计将识别和探索不同类型的岛屿条件，问：在什么方式有岛屿的数字或想法支持文学，艺术和科学的投机形式，以及如何这些互动？可以识别哪些独特的主题（岛屿叙事或故事的一般形式），它们如何在历史上发生变化？在社会政治和环境的斗争和斗争中，岛屿拓扑是以什么方式被要求的？岛屿思维的未来是什么？本研究将探讨创造性实践如何与这些历史联系起来;以何种方式将岛屿思维的投机力量重新纳入创造性实践工作，并通过材料和媒体发挥作用？作品在哪些方面能最有力地吸引我们的体验和意义？

Islands have played complex and distinctive roles in the history of western thought. Defined by their conditions of isolation, they have been repeatedly thought of as places of encounter with otherness. Islands of this sort are not intentionally found, but discovered through misnavigation (Utopia) or shipwreck (Prospero's island). Historically the island emerges as the site of speculation, invention, and experimentation, and from this arise specific island topoi. This PhD by Design explores these topoi through a sequence of works that critically engage with their cultural and material histories, from Swift's Laputa to Kafka's Penal Colony to Bikini Atoll, and beyond. There is a longstanding tradition of islands as loci of imagination, inquiry and critique from Homer's Odyssey (3000 years ago), Cristoforo Buondelmonti's Isolario (1418), Thomas Moore's Utopia (1516), William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611), Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) to Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony (1919). While these seminal works demonstrate the pull of islands and their recurrence in literature, they also forecast the emergence of islands as topoi of modernity; spaces of alterity and investigation. Whether they are utopian territories, sites of colonial discourse, or the allegorical critique of an existing political environment, we understand that isolation is the condition of all islands. All share characteristics and constraints imposed by their insularity, and therefore provide a 'closed' environment suitable for testing and knowledge development. The corpus of island scholarship is an expanding field of theoretical and conceptual inquiry that connects the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities. In Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, Shapin and Schaffer draw connections between the history of science and the history of political thought. Their text becomes a test site - to demonstrate the validity of experimental research and the intersection of different knowledge systems. Islands, like the petri dish, provide 'safe' enclosures to cultivate isolated cells of thought; from Darwin's evolutionary studies on the Galapagos islands to the Baker nuclear test on Bikini Atoll. The PhD by Design will be moved by islands as sites of phenomena that enable a destructive reality, through an interdisciplinary and synthetic mode of work. Drawing across disciplines and thematic definitions the PhD by Design will identify and explore different types of island conditions, asking: in what ways has the figure or idea of the island supported forms of literary, artistic and scientific speculation, and how have these interacted? What distinct topoi (generic forms of island narratives or stories) can be identified and how do they historically transform? In what ways have island topoi been solicited in socio-political and environmental contestations and struggles? What is the future of island-thinking? This research will examine how creative practice works in relation to these histories; in what ways can the speculative powers of island-thinking be folded back into creative practice work and made effective through material and media? In what ways can the work most powerfully engage us experientially and meaningfully?