DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique"
Organisational unit: Projectteam
Organisation profile
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
- 2025
LIAS Workshop: Beyond Restitution: Indigenous Practices, Museums and Heritage
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser)
07.02.2025 → 08.02.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
- 2024
Algeria’s contribution to Third Cinema: The case of Sarah Maldoror’s Monangambeee
Julian Volz (Speaker)
09.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Water calls: indigenous perspectives
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser)
01.12.2024 → 31.12.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Algeria’s internationalism as a source for a diasporic identity: Zineb Sedira’s installation “Dreams have no titles” (Venice Biennial 2022)
Julian Volz (Speaker)
15.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Decolonizing Aesthetic Materials in Times of Catastrophe
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker)
01.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Muralist Practices of the Algerian Avant-Gardes in the 1960s & '70s
Julian Volz (Speaker)
10.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Conference Dedicated to the Centenary of the H2SO4
Melcher Ruhkopf (Moderator), Katharina Tchelidze (Organiser), Anna Kipke (Speaker) & Julian Volz (Speaker)
09.10.2024 → 31.10.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
»Cultural Aspects of National Socialism«. Reconsidering an unfinished project of the International Institute of Social Research
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
21.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
What could museums learn from the ancestral knowledge of the peoples from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta?
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker)
05.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Elke Erb – »Die Mutter holt Kartoffeln«
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
15.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer