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. my form is myself.

    Mehl, I. (Participant)

    28.08.2017

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

  2. my form is myself.

    Mehl, I. (Speaker)

    28.08.2017

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

  3. Neue Materialismen: Quentin Meillassoux’ Ästhetik

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    15.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  5. Nietzsche's Legacy in Contemporary Political Thought

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    02.11.200904.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Normend, normierend und normalisierend – Die politische Ökonomie des Gefängnisses nach Foucault

    Mattutat, L. (Speaker)

    02.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. O.K. Werckmeister und die kritische Kunstwissenschaft

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    25.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. One hundred years that shook the world

    Hahn, T. (Speaker)

    05.10.201707.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Online-Workshop "From Dream to Zine. Schreib- und Darstellungsweisen zwischen Wissenschaft und künstlerischer Praxis"

    John, R. H. (Organiser) & Wulff, N. (Organiser)

    28.05.202229.05.2022

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

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Publications

  1. Was bleibt? Einige Überlegungen zum Medienereignis WikiLeaks
  2. From hashtag to cashback
  3. Abschluss des Vertrages
  4. Zurückweisungen von Migranten durch zivile Schiffe auf See
  5. Land use legacy effects on woody vegetation in agricultural landscapes of south-western Ethiopia
  6. Conservation of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) in mediterranean environments: A reassessment of current threats
  7. Environmental Management Accounting
  8. Die Sustainability Balanced Scorecard als Integrationsrahmen für BUIS
  9. The Threepenny Opera. Author: Brecht / Weill / Hauptmann/ Gay. Adaption: Willet Manheim. Direction: Kristan Seemel, Set Design: Jarrod Bray, Costume Design: Lara De Bruen, Lightning Design: Nick Solyom. Ensemble: Brown University/Trinity Rep. Pell Chafee Performance Center in Providence, RI/USA. May 12 – 22, 2011
  10. A morte da utopia e sua ressurreição: apontamentos sobre Stefan Andres.
  11. Verdeckte Gewinnausschüttung gemäß § 8 Abs. 3 S. 2 KStG bei Beauftragung des Gesellschafter-Geschäftsführers als Subunternehmer (Kommentierung des BFH-Urteils vom 09.07.2003, I R 100/02), Fach 4 KStG, § 8
  12. Biodiversität im unternehmerischen Immobilien- und Liegenschaftsmanagement
  13. Die jüdische Gemeinde Lüneburg
  14. Detektion emotionaler Erregung bei PKW-Fahrern
  15. Wie wirkt sich die externe Pflichtrotation auf den deutschen Prüfungsmarkt aus?
  16. Integriertes Flächenmanagement überschwemmungsgefährdeter Gebiete an der niedersächsischen Elbe unter Verwendung OGC-konfomer Services
  17. The optical decay of high l rydberg states in beam foil excited o7+
  18. Eine reichsteilung bei Josephus Flavius. Beobachtungen zu seiner Auffassung von Daniel 5
  19. Beeinflusst das Besetzungsprofil von Prüfungsausschüssen das Auftreten von Unregelmäßigkeiten in der Rechnungslegung?
  20. Erfahrungen mit der On-Board-Messtechnik im Feldeinsatz
  21. Interkulturelle versus transkulturelle Räume des Kulturtourismus
  22. The Legitimation of International Organizations
  23. The Karamoja Syndrome
  24. Internal auditors’ contribution to good corporate governance