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
- 2024
Legibility in the German Deportation Regime: Identification and the Construct of the 'Duldung'
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
07.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Disruption, Technique, World: Thinking the Present with Jean-Luc Nancy
Hörl, E. (Organiser), Lindberg, S. (Organiser), Stewart, D. (Organiser) & Tatari, M. (Organiser)
29.02.2024 → 01.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Einführung in das Asylrecht: Schwerpunkt Klimakatastrophe
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
26.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Alienating Presents. Recovering Futures: On 'Future Idustries' and the Political Imagination
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Stolz, L. (Organiser)
01.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Distortions of the Present. Materialists Perspectives on Science Fiction.
Mattutat, L. (Speaker)
01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2023
Podiumsdiskussion: Vom Unrechtskontext zur Kooperation? Über den Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe.
Kück, T. (Moderator), Leeb, S. (Participant) & Kindata, D. (Participant)
06.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Open-source Citizenship Research: Learning from Anti-corporate Campaigning Methodologies
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Museum als Ort des Wissens
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser)
23.11.2023 → 24.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Herausforderungen postkolonialer Provenienzforschung an der Schnittstelle von indigenen Gesellschaften und Museen anhand zweier Fallbeispiele
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Speaker) & Maurer, L. (Speaker)
09.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Ästhetik der Autopoiesis als Sorgender Praxis
Gräfe, A. (presenter), Mattutat, L. (Speaker) & Böcker, J. (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Böcker, J. (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Böcker, J. (Organiser) & Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The project “Jacaré”. Borys Malkin's Marketing Strategy of a Tairona Collection from Colombia
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Speaker) & Brust, A. (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Science-Fiction, spekulativer Feminismus und strafkritische Fabulation
Mattutat, L. (Oral presentation)
10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Corona, Care and Commons. Von ‚Lohn für Hausarbeit‘ zu ‚Care Revolution‘
Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
16.08.2023 → 17.08.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
23.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Reproductive Coercion and Biopolitical Control: Russian and Belarusian Cases and Trends
Davydzik, V. (Speaker), Shevchenko, S. (Speaker), Ozhiganova, A. (Speaker), Vinogradova, O. (Speaker), Iliushenka, N. (Speaker) & Zhavoronkov, A. (Speaker)
23.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Hegel and Haiti: Critique of Enlightenment Philosophy beyond Apologia and Condemnation
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Leeb, S. (Organiser)
22.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Pessimism and Optimism of the Future: the Future of the World(s) in the Strategies of Feminism and Digital Technologies
Davydzik, V. (Speaker)
16.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Guy Hocquenghem – Homosexual Desire
Betzler, L. (Speaker) & Branding, J.-H. (Speaker)
13.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research