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

（错误）航行托普伊岛：该岛是推测、发明和实验的场所

• 批准号: 2401742
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2401742
• 关键词: Mis; navigating; Island; Topoi; Site

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?

岛屿在西方思想的历史中扮演着复杂而独特的角色。根据他们的孤立条件的定义，他们被反复地认为是与其他相遇的地方。没有故意找到这种岛屿，而是通过误导（乌托邦）或沉船（Prospero's Island）发现的。从历史上看，该岛以投机，发明和实验的位置出现，并且是从这个特定的岛屿托普（Topoi）出现的。设计博士通过一系列作品探索了这些拓扑，从斯威夫特的拉普塔到卡夫卡的刑事殖民地再到比基尼环礁及其他地区，这些作品与他们的文化和物质历史进行了批判性互动。有一个长期存在的岛屿传统是荷马奥德赛（3000年前），克里斯托福洛·伯德蒙蒂（Cristoforo Buondelmonti）的isolario（1418），托马斯·摩尔（Thomas Moore）的乌托邦（1516），威廉·夏克斯（William Shakespeare （1726）致弗朗兹·卡夫卡（Franz Kafka）的《刑事殖民地》（1919年）。尽管这些开创性的作品展示了岛屿的吸引力及其在文学中的复发，但它们也预测岛屿的出现是现代性的拓扑。变化和调查的空间。无论它们是乌托邦领土，殖民话语的遗址还是对现有政治环境的寓言批判，我们都知道隔离是所有岛屿的条件。所有共享特征和孤立性施加的特征和约束，因此提供了一个适合测试和知识发展的“封闭”环境。岛屿学术奖学金是一个不断扩展的理论和概念探究领域，它连接了社会科学，自然科学和人文科学。在Leviathan和Air Pump：Hobbes，Boyle和实验性生活中，Shapin和Schaffer在科学史与政治思想史之间建立了联系。他们的文本成为一个测试站点 - 证明实验研究的有效性和不同知识系统的交集。像培养皿一样，岛屿提供了“安全”的围墙，以培养孤立的思想细胞。从达尔文对加拉帕戈斯群岛的进化研究到对比基尼环礁的贝克核试验。设计的博士将被岛屿作为现象所在的现象所移动，通过跨学科和合成的工作方式使破坏性的现实能够造就破坏性的现实。划分学科和主题定义，设计博士学位将识别和探索不同类型的岛屿条件，询问：岛上支持的文学，艺术和科学猜测的形式是什么方式或构想，这些形式如何相互作用？可以确定哪些独特的托托伊（岛屿叙事或故事的通用形式）以及它们历史上如何改变？在社会政治和环境的竞争和斗争中，岛上的托波伊以什么方式被征求来？岛屿思维的未来是什么？这项研究将研究创造性实践如何与这些历史有关。可以将岛屿思维的投机力量折叠成创意实践工作，并通过材料和媒体有效？这项工作能以什么方式可以最大程度地实验和有意义地吸引我们？