SpatioTemporalities on the Line

Representations-Practices-Dynamics

Sebastian Dorsch, Jutta Vinzent, Sebastian Dorsch, Jutta Vinzent

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783110455519
• eBook ISBN: 9783110465785
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

Linien, Linearitäten, das Lineare, aber auch deren Negation, das Nicht-Lineare spiegeln und prägen auf vielschichtige Weise die raum-zeitliche Welt-Bild-Produktion in Alltag und Wissenschaften. Wie aber können Linien dargestellt werden? Sind sie Flächen oder eine Zusammensetzung aus Punkten? Und wie wirken sich solche Fragen darauf aus, wenn man, wie Tim Ingold, die Linie zur Interpretation von Kulturphänomenen zugrunde legt? Das vorliegende Buch setzt hier an und reflektiert aus multidisziplinären Perspektiven RaumZeitlichkeiten von Linien, im (nicht)linearen Denken und Handeln und damit verbundene Repräsentationstechniken.

About the authors

Holger Berg (B.A. Copenhagen, M.A. Erfurt, PhD EUI Florence) is co-editor of the digital scholarly edition of the complete works of N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872) and employed at the Grundtvig Study Centre at the Danish University of Aarhus (at www.grundtvigsvaerker.dk). He has published Grundtvig’s political poems and pamphlets along with works on world history including a chronological chart and is currently preparing a digital edition of selected manuscripts by Hans Christian Andersen. The topics of his articles range from dream visions to the acoustics of war and the laws of war in early modern Europe. A full list is to be found at http://montanus.webs.com. His PhD thesis, comparing lay and pastoral beliefs in divine intervention through a community study inspired by historical anthropology, is published as Military Occupation under the Eyes of the Lord. Studies in Erfurt during the Thirty Years War (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010).

Jochen Brüning (Dr. rer.nat. and Dipl.-Math. Marburg) is a mathematician working in the field of Geometric Analysis. He has held professorships in mathematics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, the universities of Duisburg and Augsburg and, since 1995, at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was Speaker of the SFB 647 (Collaborative Research Center) ‘Space Time Matter’ at the Humboldt University funded by the DFG (German Research Council) from 2005 to 2016. Besides mathematics proper, he entertains a vivid interest in cultural history and philosophy, especially of mathematics. This interest materialized in two institutes that he co-founded and led as the founding director: the Institute of European Cultural History in Augsburg and the Hermann von Helmholtz Institute for Cultural Technique at the Humboldt University. Both these activities led to intense research: in Augsburg, on the humanist Konrad Peutinger whose impressive library was reconstructed with support from the DFG by Brüning and Jan Dirk Müller (J.Brüning, H. Gier, J.-D. Müller, B. Schimmelpfennig (eds.): Die Bibliothek Konrad Peutingers I, II, Max Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2003, 2005); and in Berlin, on Hermann von Helmholtz whose collected works he edited (J. Brüning (ed.): Hermann von Helmholtz Collected Works, 18 vols., Olms 2006). Helmholtz is further on Brüning’s agenda with a long-term project which involves editing parts of Helmholtz’ unpublished manuscripts. Brüning’s other project is concerned with the role of collecting in Cultural Evolution and scholarship. He not only writes about it but also curates exhibitions on the topic, notably ‘Theatrum naturae et artis. Wunderkammern des Wissens’ (together with Horst Bredekamp in 2000/2001). The impact of this exhibition fostered a new interest in scientific collections at German universities which Brüning supported in many ways.

Sebastian Dorsch (B.A. Passau/Erfurt, M.A. Erfurt/Mexico-City, Dr. Phil. Erfurt) is Research Assistant in Latin American History and History of Cartography at Erfurt University and Gotha Research Centre. After having been awarded his M.A. from Erfurt University and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) he worked six years at the chair for Latin and Southwestern European History (Erfurt). In 2008 he defended his PhD thesis on the struggles for constitutional cultures in Michoacán (Mexico) before, during and after the political independence of Mexico in 1821. In 2010 the thesis was published as Verfassungskultur in Michoacán (Mexiko): Ringen um Ordnung und Souveränität im Zeitalter der Atlantischen Revolutionen (Lateinamerikanische Forschungen 37). Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau, 2010. After his PhD, he received a grant for the project ‘Cultural TimeSpaces of an Atlantic Metropolis. São Paulo, 1867–1930’ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). While working on this project he initiated the interdisciplinary Erfurt SpaceTime Research Group (www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/raumzeit-forschung/) in cooperation with Susanne Rau (Erfurt). After the organisation of several workshops, he co-edited a special issue titled Space/Time Practices in the journal Historical Social Research 3 (2013). In 2015 the Group began publishing the series SpatioTemporality, in which this book appears. Dorsch’s current research is concerned with the history of cartographical knowledge on the Amazon around 1900. He has published on this topic the essay ‘Wissen produzieren, lokalisieren und imaginieren. Von „falschen Karten“ und „wissenschaftlichen Expeditionen“ in der Auseinandersetzung um Guyana. 1880er bis 1900er Jahre (Producing, Localising, and Imaging Knowledge. On ‘false maps’ and ‘scientific expeditions’ in the Brazilian-French debates about Guyana. 1880s – 1900s. In Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 40 (2016), 39–63. For methodical questions on spatiotemporality and translocality, see his essay „Translokale Wissensakteure“: Ein Debattenvorschlag zu Wissens- und Globalgeschichtsschreibung (‘Translocal Actors of Knowledge’. Proposal for Discourse in Knowledge and Global History). In ZfG. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 64/9 (2016): 78–95.

Kathrin Fehringer (M.A. Munich, Dr. Phil. Erfurt) is Research Assistant and tutor at the Department of Romance Literatures at the Erfurt University. After studying Romance Literatures, German Literatures and Art in Munich and Paris, she was awarded a scholarship at Erfurt University for her doctoral thesis on Textile & Space: Visual Poetologies in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and received a travel grant to spend three months at the Johns Hopkins University (US) in 2012. Since 2014, Kathrin Fehringer holds a Postdoctoral Scholarship in the interdisciplinary project Laboratory Group Cultural Techniques at the Erfurt University for her project on Cultural Techniques of the Hand in Contemporary Literature (with a special interest in Techniques of the Body and its spatial dimensions). In 2016, she chaired the panel on Cultural Techniques at the ACLA Conference at Harvard University and participated in a scholarship exchange program funded by the DAAD, teaching at the National University of la Plata (Argentina). Fehringer’s interests cover comparative literatures of the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, spatial structures, deixis, the relations of text and image, and intermediality. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on Sports & Literature. Her publications include the book Textil & Raum. Visuelle Poetologien in Gustave Flaube...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Setting the Scene
• Lines, Linearities and Folds
• Lines in Landscape and Society
• Lines, Forces and Modernities
• Timelines and Narratives
• Interdisciplinary literature on lines
• About the authors