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
Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies Writing Workshop
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
19.10.2017 → 20.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Othering und Performance-Kunst im postkolonialen Kontext
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
26.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Orientalisierte Begierden: Die Schwulen und Algerien.
Volz, J. (Speaker)
03.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Open-source Citizenship Research: Learning from Anti-corporate Campaigning Methodologies
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
On the Difficulties and Promises of Accessing and Mobilizing Information around Deportation-related Identification
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
On Race & Ecocide: Thinking of New Forms of Environmentality and Eco-Colonialism
Genidogan, K. (Speaker)
14.05.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Online-Workshop "From Dream to Zine. Schreib- und Darstellungsweisen zwischen Wissenschaft und künstlerischer Praxis"
John, R. H. (Organiser) & Wulff, N. (Organiser)
28.05.2022 → 29.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
One hundred years that shook the world
Hahn, T. (Speaker)
05.10.2017 → 07.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
O.K. Werckmeister und die kritische Kunstwissenschaft
Schneider, T. (Speaker)
25.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Normend, normierend und normalisierend – Die politische Ökonomie des Gefängnisses nach Foucault
Mattutat, L. (Speaker)
02.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education