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

Main research areas

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

  1. »FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«

    Kowalewski, L. (Organiser) & Mehl, I. (Organiser)

    01.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  2. »FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«

    Mehl, I. (Organiser)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  3. »FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«

    Kowalewski, L. (Organiser)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique

    Lochner, O. (Organiser), Mehl, I. (Speaker) & Kowalewski, L. (Speaker)

    01.06.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  5. From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique

    Lochner, O. (Organiser), Mehl, I. (Speaker) & Kowalewski, L. (Speaker)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  6. From Where I Stand meets Pact of Silence – How to break it? Institutional critique & instituting otherwise from a feminist perspective

    Ahldag, A. (Speaker), Thirukode, M. (Speaker), John, R. H. (Organiser), Lochner, O. (Organiser), Mehl, I. (Organiser) & Wulff, N. (Organiser)

    16.04.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  7. FULL ON ... MASK HYSTERIA: NEW AND OLD NORMALITIES

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    01.05.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  8. Für feministische Kunstgeschichten - gegen kunsthistorischen Hegelianismus

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    04.11.202107.11.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  9. Für Hans Jürgen Krahl

    Volz, J. (Speaker) & Gerber, M. (Speaker)

    11.04.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  10. Genre Developments in the Colonial Kiongozi Newspaper in German East Africa 1885-1918

    Kindata, D. (Speaker)

    20.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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Researchers

  1. Moritz Altenried

Publications

  1. Zur Kritik der Fähigkeiten
  2. Emerging risks from ballast water treatment
  3. Perspectives on German Popular Music
  4. Business, the Natural Environment, and Sustainability
  5. Kommentar der Herausgeberinnen
  6. Künstliche Feuchtflächen in Hochwasserrückhaltebecken – eine Chance für die Reduzierung von Pflanzenschutzmitteleinträgen in Gewässer
  7. Beobachtung der Vermittlung von selbstreguliertem Lesen im Deutschunterricht mit dem Beobachtungsbogen Lestra-BD
  8. Schülerfeedback - was steckt hinter dem Kreuz auf dem Fragebogen?
  9. Product-Service Systems as Enabler for Sustainability-Oriented Innovation
  10. Sustainable lifestyles
  11. Michael Hoffmann. 2017. Stil und Text. Eine Einführung (Narr Studienbücher). Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto
  12. Designing greener active pharmaceutical ingredients
  13. Standortmanagement und -marketing
  14. Photojournalisme en Allemagne à l’ère de la révolution numérique
  15. Raumnutzungskonflikte in der Küstenzone
  16. Werkzeug und Verfahren zur Bearbeitung eines Werkstückes aus einem harten Material
  17. Die Rolle der Berufswahlbereitschaft für eine erfolgreiche Berufswahl
  18. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil des Computers für die Kunstgeschichte
  19. Digitale Transformation in der Bildungslandschaft – den analogen Stecker ziehen?
  20. Gender-Mainstreaming-Aspekte im Rahmen von Anrechnungsverfahren
  21. Nicht künstlerisch, sondern musikpraktisch professionell?
  22. Music City
  23. Emissions Trading and Corporate Sustainability Management
  24. Struktur - Institution - Regelmäßigkeit
  25. Musikproduktion in Hamburg
  26. Basic corporate finance terminology
  27. Ludwig Adolf Petri (1803-1873)
  28. Simulationsbasierte Untersuchung von Energieflexibilität bei der Optimierung in der Hinterlandentwässerung