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. Eternal Irony – critique as the feminine?

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    07.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Es geht um

    Schneider, T. (Curator)

    13.09.201925.10.2019

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

  3. Erinnerung an den Ursprung

    Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser) & Felicitas Sabel, L. (Moderator)

    01.09.2022

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

  4. Erfindung des Gemeinsamen: zur Kritik des Privaten und des Öffentlichen

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Elke Erb – »Die Mutter holt Kartoffeln«

    Betzler, L. (Speaker)

    15.05.2024

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

  6. Einführung in die utilitaristische Ethik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser)

    10.05.2022

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

  7. Einführung in die deontologische Ethik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser)

    09.05.2022

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

  8. Einführung in das Asylrecht: Schwerpunkt Klimakatastrophe

    Bescherer, K. (Speaker)

    26.01.2024

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

  9. Einführung in das Asylrecht

    Bescherer, K. (Speaker)

    24.06.2022

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

  10. Einführung in das Asylrecht

    Bescherer, K. (Speaker)

    16.12.2022

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