SPP 1688:
Proper Times of the Aesthetic. Time and Representation in Polychronic Modernity
Subject Area
Humanities
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Term
from 2013 to 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 220271541
The Priority Programme pursues four comprehensive research objectives. First, it strives to show the fundamental importance of processes of representation to render the experience and reflection of time and to carve out new aspects and paradigms of temporality through the study of artefacts, of their formal structures and of their contexts. The Priority Programme aims to accentuate of the importance of non-propositional structures for our knowledge of time and to establish the concept of "Proper Times of the Aesthetic" as a key concept to describe epistemic formations within the field of modern concepts of time and temporality. Second, for the field of the arts the Priority Programme examines how reflections of time through works of art and investigations of time and temporality as crucial dimensions of the production and reception of art can be related to each other, that is to find out how knowledge of time and the temporality of various forms of representation are affiliated in the diverse arts. Third, the Priority Programme aims at a revision of the current image of modernity by relating questions of representation to the social and particularly to the scientific and technological dimensions of modernity, by delineating hitherto concealed elements of temporality in modernity, and by describing the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous as prominent feature of an inherently polymorphic and poly-chronic modernity. Established narratives of history shall be questioned, and new concepts of cultural processes shall be developed. Fourth, the Priority Programme discusses the comprehensive theoretical question of how knowledge is rendered through formal structures - in this particular case the knowledge of time and temporality -, and which role formal aspects play in the establishment of a pluralism of cultural studies. Using as example the articulation of temporality through form, the status of artistic and non-artistic renditions shall be determined; moreover, the Priority Programme challenges established notions of the status of unique works of art and of formal representation for the history of knowledge.
DFG Programme
Priority Programmes
International Connection
Austria, Switzerland, USA
Projects
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A Chronotopographical History of GDR-literature
(Applicant
Ostheimer, Michael
)
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Aesthetic temporalities in the transnational space of the "Black Atlantic"
(Applicant
Genge, Gabriele
)
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Aesthetic Temporalities of Literary Physics
(Applicant
Gamper, Michael
)
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After Time: Permanence, Recursion, Prevention
(Applicants
Görling, Reinhold
;
Raimondi, Francesca
;
Schwarte, Ludger
)
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Animal time. On the biodiversity of Modern Knowledge of Time
(Applicant
Kugler, Gisela Lena
)
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Awareness: Techniques of Making-Present and Subjective Re-Appropriation of Time in Contemporary Dance
(Applicant
Brandstetter, Gabriele
)
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Biological Times. Media, Technologies, and Architectures of Epistemic Temporality
(Applicant
Schmidgen, Henning
)
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China's Modernity: Discourses of the Inbetween-Moment and the Apparative Media
(Applicant
Kramer, Stefan
)
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Climate's Time. the Temporalization of Nature in Modern Literature
(Applicant
Horn, Eva
)
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Coordination Funds
(Applicant
Gamper, Michael
)
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Currentness. On the history of references to the present in German Literature and the temporalization of the present around 1800
(Applicant
Lehmann, Johannes
)
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Dramatic times of Politics
(Applicants
Gamper, Michael
;
Schnyder, Peter
)
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Entangled Island Times. A history of literature and knowledge of the Islandbiogeography between 1600 and 1850
(Applicant
Borgards, Roland
)
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'Here You Leave Today': Aesthetic Proper Times in Theme Parks
(Applicants
Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
;
Freitag, Florian
)
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Individual temporalities and reading communities: Structures of temporality and anglophone long novels from the 1970s to the present.
(Applicant
Griem, Julika
)
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Language-based appresentations of material time-experiences. The relationship of object-aesthetic and social meaning in metaphors of time.
(Applicants
Rosa, Hartmut
;
Ziegler, Sabine
)
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Les journées ne durent plus: Psychopathological Proper Time in German and French Literature from the Late 19th to Mid-20th Century
(Applicant
Bergengruen, Maximilian
)
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On Asynchronous Concurrence: Synchronicity, Simultaneity and Superposition in Contemporary Novels and Films
(Applicant
Zubarik, Sabine
)
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Picture - perception - time. reception aesthetics and its temporality
(Applicants
Grave, Johannes
;
Wegner, Reinhard
)
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Polychronicity of the Market: Neoclassical Temporality in Projects of Economic Order since the 1970s
(Applicant
Langenohl, Andreas
)
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Primeval Times and Environment. Staging Prehistory in Modern Age
(Applicant
Wessely, Christina
)
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Religious times, media genres, technical implementation: an ethnography of audiovisual media practices among Shi'ites in Hyderabad
(Applicant
Eisenlohr, Patrick
)
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Stages of Diversion. Temporal Economies in Popular Theatre of the 19th Century
(Applicant
Matala de Mazza, Ethel
)
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Standstill - Scenes of Stasis and Latency
(Applicants
Gronau, Barbara
;
Görling, Reinhold
;
Schwarte, Ludger
)
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Synchronisierung körperlicher Eigenzeiten und choreographische Ästhetik
(Applicant
Brandstetter, Gabriele
)
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The Temporalities of Economics: The Model Form of Economic Theory
(Applicant
Langenohl, Andreas
)
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Time and Form on the Move: Goethe's Morphology and its aftermath in the 20th century
(Applicant
Geulen, Eva
)
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Time and Rhythm in Pictures. An aesthetic concept and its implications from the point of view of reception aesthetics
(Applicant
Grave, Johannes
)
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'Time has come today' Special time patterns of pop-musical chronotopes and their impact on the temporal differentiation of life worlds since the 1960s
(Applicant
Schrage, Dominik
)