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. Foucault lecteur de Bataill et de Blanchot

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    22.10.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  2. Forschungskolloquium unter der Leitung von Prof. Bénédicte Savoy

    Felicitas Sabel, L. (Participant)

    04.2021 → …

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

  3. Forschungsfeld Hafen

    Ruhkopf, M. (Speaker) & Kosok, L. (Speaker)

    10.201909.2020

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

  4. Fluchtlinien – Irrlinien: Gilles Deleuze, Fernand Deligny, die Kunst und die Kartographie

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    16.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. Fissures: Reiner Schürmann’s Genealogy of the Apperceptive Subject

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  6. Filmgespräch: Zustand und Gelände

    Volz, J. (Moderator) & Adamczeski, U. (Artist)

    17.09.2021

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

  7. Feministische Kritik des Strafrechts

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser), Bayer, D. (Organiser), Burghardt, B. (Organiser) & Steinl, L. (Organiser)

    26.01.202327.01.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  8. Faradaysche Käfige

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    25.08.2015

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

  9. Fabrik, Schule, Klinik, Knast - Foucaults Genealogie des Gefängnisses

    Mattutat, L. (Speaker)

    21.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  10. Existentielle Territorien, Ritornell, Dispositive. Was heißt Wohnen?

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    23.09.201226.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer