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
Eternal Irony – critique as the feminine?
Szasz, C. (Speaker)
07.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Es geht um
Schneider, T. (Curator)
13.09.2019 → 25.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Erinnerung an den Ursprung
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser) & Felicitas Sabel, L. (Moderator)
01.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Erfindung des Gemeinsamen: zur Kritik des Privaten und des Öffentlichen
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
02.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Elke Erb – »Die Mutter holt Kartoffeln«
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
15.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Einführung in die utilitaristische Ethik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie
Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
10.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Einführung in die deontologische Ethik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie
Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
09.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Einführung in das Asylrecht: Schwerpunkt Klimakatastrophe
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
26.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
24.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
16.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education