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
Foucault lecteur de Bataill et de Blanchot
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
22.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Forschungskolloquium unter der Leitung von Prof. Bénédicte Savoy
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Participant)
04.2021 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Forschungsfeld Hafen
Ruhkopf, M. (Speaker) & Kosok, L. (Speaker)
10.2019 → 09.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Fluchtlinien – Irrlinien: Gilles Deleuze, Fernand Deligny, die Kunst und die Kartographie
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)
16.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Fissures: Reiner Schürmann’s Genealogy of the Apperceptive Subject
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)
02.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Filmgespräch: Zustand und Gelände
Volz, J. (Moderator) & Adamczeski, U. (Artist)
17.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Feministische Kritik des Strafrechts
Mattutat, L. (Organiser), Bayer, D. (Organiser), Burghardt, B. (Organiser) & Steinl, L. (Organiser)
26.01.2023 → 27.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Faradaysche Käfige
Schneider, T. (Speaker)
25.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Fabrik, Schule, Klinik, Knast - Foucaults Genealogie des Gefängnisses
Mattutat, L. (Speaker)
21.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Existentielle Territorien, Ritornell, Dispositive. Was heißt Wohnen?
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
23.09.2012 → 26.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer