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

Topics

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

  1. 2024
  2. What could museums learn from the ancestral knowledge of the peoples from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta?

    Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker)

    05.06.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  3. Elke Erb – »Die Mutter holt Kartoffeln«

    Lukas Betzler (Speaker)

    15.05.2024

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

  4. Artist Talk: Mohamad Abdouni im Gespräch mit Julian Volz

    Julian Volz (Speaker) & Mohamad Abdouni (Speaker)

    08.05.2024

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

  5. 5th Transregional Academy on Latin American Art 2024

    Raphael Daibert (Participant)

    04.05.202412.05.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Die Gegenwart des Antikolonialismus in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc und Bouchra Khalili

    Julian Volz (Speaker)

    26.04.2024

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

  7. Llano del Rio. A Case of (Revolutionary) Desire

    Liza Mattutat (Speaker)

    17.04.202418.04.2024

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

  8. Media Practices in “Red Algeria” and its Heritage in Contemporary Arts

    Julian Volz (Speaker)

    11.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Trapped in the Dream of the Other. An Essay on the Temporality of Love and Social Change

    Liza Mattutat (Speaker)

    04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Legibility in the German Deportation Regime: Identification and the Construct of the 'Duldung'

    Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)

    07.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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