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
From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique
Lochner, O. (Organiser), Mehl, I. (Speaker) & Kowalewski, L. (Speaker)
01.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique
Lochner, O. (Organiser), Mehl, I. (Speaker) & Kowalewski, L. (Speaker)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Kowalewski, L. (Organiser) & Mehl, I. (Organiser)
01.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Mehl, I. (Organiser)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Kowalewski, L. (Organiser)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
From the 'decolonial perspective' to a methodology of transformation, or: becoming a subject in Edgar Calel's earthworks
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
12.11.2021 → 13.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
From Christiane to Elisabeth. The 19th Century Genesis of the Intellectually Working Woman and the Epistemological Dependency on Structures of Desire in Hegel and Nietzsche
Szasz, C. (Speaker)
27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Freie Universität Berlin
Pias, C. (Visiting researcher)
10.2016 → 04.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Founding moral theory: a Meillassouxian perspective on Kant’s postulate problem
Szasz, C. (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Foucault trifft Latour
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
27.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research