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DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique"

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The cultural sciences research training group “Cultures of Criticism” undertakes a productive revision of the preconditions, roles and validity claims of critique. On the one hand, new technologies and distribution channels have given rise to a welter of unexpected critical and quasi-critical practices. On the other hand, the very theoretical foundations of critique have come under massive pressure – and so, it seems, has the modern project of critique as a whole. What may be regarded as an act of critique and which agents, expectations and criteria take part, is currently subject to basal negotiation.

The research training group conceives critique as a praxis that is always already culturally situated, while its efficacy rides on comprehensive claims to validity and authority. The phenomena under critique are inseparably interwoven with the forms and media used to represent them. Representation thus appears as the focal point in which widely divergent forms of critique and their heterogeneous cultures lend themselves to comparative discussion. Building on studies of diverse concrete critical practices, the Research Training Group seeks to remap the interaction between critique and culture in the history of modernity up to the present and employ the tools of cultural studies to frame a well founded and timely conception of critique.

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen

Deputy spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl

Topics

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

Publications (198)

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Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer › peer-review

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Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer › peer-review

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Projects (47)

A Museum of Memory for Colombia: The emergence of a controversial space

Project: Dissertation project

‚Alger la Blanche‘ becomes ‚Alger la Rouge‘ – On the heritage of the anti-colonial movements in contemporary art

Project: Dissertation project

Cabaret Voltaire Audio Guide

Project: Other

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Activities (360)

»Cultural Aspects of National Socialism«. Reconsidering an unfinished project of the International Institute of Social Research

Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research

What could museums learn from the ancestral knowledge of the peoples from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta?

Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer

Elke Erb – »Die Mutter holt Kartoffeln«

Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer

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