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. Harald Buchrucker und seine Metallwerkstatt (1931-1985) - 2010

    Berents-Kemp, C. (Curator)

    28.03.201029.08.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  2. Hegel and Adorno: Philosophy and Sociology

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    20.02.2019

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

  3. Hegel and Haiti: Critique of Enlightenment Philosophy beyond Apologia and Condemnation

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Leeb, S. (Organiser)

    22.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  4. Hegemoniekritische Analysen des Strafrechts

    Mattutat, L. (Speaker)

    01.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  5. Horst Janssen und die Niederländer des 17. Jahrhunderts 2006

    Berents-Kemp, C. (Curator)

    15.07.200631.10.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  6. HOW? Questions of methodology, intentionality, and situatedness in research as a (critical) praxis

    Eduardo, S. (Organiser), Genidogan, K. (Organiser), Sieber, J. (Organiser) & Buchinger, A. (Organiser)

    26.05.202128.05.2021

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

  7. How to bridge the Distances: Strategies of Solidarity in Times of Need

    Eduardo, S. (Speaker)

    12.11.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  8. How to Organize Well? Participatory Platforms, New Modes of Value, Municipalist Movements.

    Brunner, C. (Speaker)

    16.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. hyper-retinal in service of the mind

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    12.06.201513.06.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

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Publications

  1. Ein langer Weg zur Qualitätssicherung von Hochschulprüfungen
  2. Sven Dupre (ed.), Perspective as Practice. Renaissance Cultures of Optics. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2019, 512 p. ISBN 978-2-503-58107-1
  3. Ombuds- und Beschwerdestellen in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe
  4. Kriterien und Effekte von digitalen Medien in inklusiven Lerngruppen
  5. Wirksame Schulleitungen
  6. Immanent und Produktivität der Normen
  7. Unternehmensflexibilität
  8. Editorial: Sexualdevianz
  9. Gütermarktorientiertes Umweltmanagement
  10. Other-regarding preferences, spousal disability and happiness
  11. Mit uns die Zukunft. Nachhaltige Transformationen brauchen andere Geschlechterverhältnisse
  12. Operationalising Competencies in Higher Education for Sustainable Development
  13. The course of research into the economic consequences of German works councils
  14. Demokratiemuster und Leistungsbilanz von Regierungen
  15. Zum Einfluss der Mentoring-Beziehung auf die Kompetenzentwicklung von Lehramtsstudierenden im Langzeitpraktikum
  16. Effects of elevated CO2, O3 and K deficiency on Norway spruce (Picea abies)
  17. Fatty acid feedstock preparation and lactic acid production as integrated processes in mixed restaurant food and bakery wastes treatment
  18. Das Fettsäureprofil des initialen oralen Biofilms (Pellikel) - eine In-situ-Studie
  19. "... ein ungeheuerliches Ding mit plumpen, ungeschickten Gliedern"
  20. Die Einheiten der Diskursforschung und der Streit um den Methodenausweis
  21. „Abschluß des Menschlichen“
  22. Les villes artificielles comme espaces de formation de l’ordre politique
  23. Kunst zur Sprache bringen
  24. Neue Rollen für Lehrer und Schüler?