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. 2018
  2. "The Common Sense": Maschinische Verschuldung bei Melanie Gilligan

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    26.04.201827.04.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Creativity and Social Organization MA Seminar - 2018

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201815.07.2018

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

  4. Curatorial/Knowledge Seminar - 2017

    Genidogan, K. (Organiser)

    17.03.2018

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

  5. Workshop zu gegenwärtigen Bedingungen von Schreib- und Denkarbeit

    Mehl, I. (Speaker)

    23.02.201825.02.2018

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

  6. Workshop zu gegenwärtigen Bedingungen von Schreib- und Denkarbeit der Zeitschrift Brand New Life in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunsthaus Glarus

    Lochner, O. (Speaker) & Mehl, I. (Speaker)

    23.02.201825.02.2018

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

  7. Rücksicht auf Darstellung. Modelle der Kritik nach Benjamin und Adorno

    Stubenrauch, H. (Organiser), Mattutat, L. (Organiser), Ardner, R. (Organiser), Müller, J. (Keynote speaker), Geulen, E. (Keynote speaker), Schweppenhäuser, G. (Keynote speaker) & Haverkamp, A. (Keynote speaker)

    25.01.201826.01.2018

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

  8. Vortragsreihe »Fellows in Residence im Hause Nietzsche«: Materialismus heute - 2018

    Szasz, C. (Speaker) & Küpper, M. (Speaker)

    25.01.2018

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

  9. CritiqueLab. Toolkits for Critique in Digital Cultures - 2018

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Moderator)

    11.01.201812.01.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 6th Terra Ciritca: Critique and/as Technology

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    2018

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

  11. meson press (Publisher)

    Bernard, A. (Editor)

    2018

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  12. Terra Critica Workshop: Cultures of Critique - 2018

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    2018

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

  13. 2017
  14. Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017

    Kowalewski, L. (Participant)

    29.11.201701.12.2017

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

  15. Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017

    Heymer, E. (Organiser)

    29.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Raus aus dem elitären Zirkel? Kunst, Kritik und Öffentlichkeit

    Lochner, O. (Speaker)

    27.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  17. „Positive“ Kritik

    Mehl, I. (Speaker)

    24.11.201726.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. „Positive“ Kritik

    Lochner, O. (Speaker)

    24.11.201725.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  19. Positiv/Negativ-Dialog. (mit Rebecca Ardner, Oona Lochner, Isabel Mehl, Aliya Rayyan, Heiko Stubenrauch)

    Heymer, E. (Speaker)

    24.11.201726.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Post-X Po­li­tics

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Panel participant)

    21.11.201723.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Post-X Politics - – Internationaler Workshop zu den Herausforderungen des digitalen Wandels

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Organiser)

    21.11.201723.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  22. The Art of Criticism

    Lochner, O. (Participant)

    21.11.2017

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

  23. »FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«

    Mehl, I. (Organiser)

    09.11.2017

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

  24. »FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«

    Kowalewski, L. (Organiser)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  25. From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique

    Lochner, O. (Organiser), Mehl, I. (Speaker) & Kowalewski, L. (Speaker)

    09.11.2017

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

  26. Wien Depot: Podiumsdiskussion

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  27. Gerechtigkeit oder Kritik der Macht? Der Kampf um die Gleichfreiheit und die Eroberung von Räumen der Freiheit

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    06.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  30. Von der doppelten Mimesis zum double bind – Ian Hamilton Finlays visuelle Narrative

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    02.11.201703.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  31. Foucault trifft Latour

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    27.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  32. Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies Writing Workshop

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    19.10.201720.10.2017

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

  33. Colloquium social critique - 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  34. Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2019

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

  35. New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  36. Se déprendre de soi-même

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    12.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  37. One hundred years that shook the world

    Hahn, T. (Speaker)

    05.10.201707.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  38. Me­di­en der As­sis­tenz. Ac­cessa­bi­li­ty und Di­gi­ta­le Kul­tu­ren

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Panel participant)

    04.10.201707.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  39. Neue Materialismen: Quentin Meillassoux’ Ästhetik

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    15.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. Grenzen

    Kowalewski, L. (Participant)

    12.09.201715.09.2017

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

  41. my form is myself.

    Mehl, I. (Participant)

    28.08.2017

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

  42. my form is myself.

    Mehl, I. (Speaker)

    28.08.2017

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

  43. Summerschool "Rhetorik(en) der Literaturwissenschaft" 2017

    Mehl, I. (Speaker)

    23.07.201730.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  44. 2017 GEM Summer Institute

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Participant)

    15.07.201730.07.2017

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

  45. The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. Dialogue between Art History and Regional Studies: How Can a Transcultural Perspective Question the Canon and Enrich the Discipline of Art History? - 2017

    John, R. (Organiser), Dr. Ehninger, E. (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Juneja, M. (Speaker) & Adeli, J. (Speaker)

    04.07.2017

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

  47. Searching for the Common Ground. The Role of Female Artists in India after 1990

    John, R. (Organiser), Bhow, R. (Participant) & Jain, P. (Participant)

    26.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  48. Privacy by Design. Überwachung, Selbst, Kontrolle

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Keynote Speaker)

    22.06.201723.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. Common Ground #3. Where the Circles Intersect

    John, R. (Curator), Barve, Y. (Artist), Jain, P. (Artist), Patil, A. (Artist), Bhow, R. (Artist), Faiza, N. (Artist) & Kelton, T. (Artist)

    20.06.201718.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  50. Susan Taubes’ Heideggerian reading of Marx’s ›telos‹

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    09.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  51. Between the Wage and the Commons

    Kuhn, H. (Moderator)

    05.06.201706.06.2017

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

  52. »FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«

    Kowalewski, L. (Organiser) & Mehl, I. (Organiser)

    01.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  53. Images in Conflict

    Kowalewski, L. (Participant)

    17.05.201718.05.2017

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

  54. Founding moral theory: a Meillassouxian perspective on Kant’s postulate problem

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    12.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  55. VIDEO ACTIVISM CONFERENCE BERLIN 2017

    Kowalewski, L. (Participant)

    12.05.201713.05.2017

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

  56. Workshop with Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks

    Kuhn, H. (Moderator) & Hardt, M. (Speaker)

    09.05.201710.05.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  57. Was sind digitale Kulturen? MA Seminar

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201715.07.2017

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

  58. Divinity and Materialism

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    11.03.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  59. Stipendiat*innentagung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2017

    Lochner, O. (presenter)

    24.02.201726.02.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  60. transmediale 2017

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Moderator)

    31.01.201704.02.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  61. transmediale 2017

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Speaker)

    31.01.201704.02.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  62. ‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘

    Herberg, J. (presenter), Leistert, O. (Coauthor), Meyer, E. M. (Coauthor), Schmieg, G. (Coauthor), Schrickel, I. (Coauthor), Caniglia, G. (Coauthor), Laubichler, M. (Coauthor), Hörl, E. (Coauthor), Lang, D. J. (Coauthor) & Vilsmaier, U. (Coauthor)

    23.01.201724.01.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  63. The Value of Critique

    Kowalewski, L. (Speaker)

    19.01.201720.01.2017

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

  64. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  65. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    20172018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  66. Kritiken des Leidens

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  67. Kultur & Gespenster (Journal)

    Wulff, N. (Editor), Goll, P. (Editor), Malzew, E. (Editor), Mechlenburg, G. (Editor), Peters, B. (Editor), Sdun, N. (Editor), Becker-Weimann, A. (Editor-in-Chief) & Dany, H.-C. (Editor-in-Chief)

    2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  68. Positive und negative Kritik bei Deleuze und Adorno

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  69. Princeton University

    Pias, C. (Visiting researcher)

    2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  70. 2016
  71. Die feinen Unterschiede in den Werken von Bertrand Lavier

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    01.12.2016

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

  72. Othering und Performance-Kunst im postkolonialen Kontext

    Eduardo, S. (Speaker)

    26.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  73. Der gemarterte Körper. Der Schmerz des Selbst und der Anderen von Kafka bis Pasolini

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    23.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  74. The compatibility of knowing and believing in Quentin Meillassoux’s Divine« Inexistence

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    17.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  75. Strafen und Neoliberalismus

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser)

    03.11.201604.11.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  76. Problem gelöst? Nein heißt Nein!: Podiumsdiskussion zur Reform des Sexualstrafrechts

    Mattutat, L. (Speaker)

    31.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  77. Lesung - Susan Taubes: Der letzte Tanz und andere Erzählungen

    Szasz, C. (presenter)

    28.10.2016

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

  78. Transparency and Temporality: Benjamin’s Caesura

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    14.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  79. DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique" (Organisational unit)

    Hörl, E. H. (Speaker)

    10.2016 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  80. Freie Universität Berlin

    Pias, C. (Visiting researcher)

    10.201604.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  81. Gespenstische (Vorder-)gründe: Bildrhetoriken als Symptom medialer Effekte

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    28.09.201602.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  82. Münster Skulptur Projekte. Writing an oral history of contemporary art

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    21.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  83. Memory Flows Like the Tide at Dusk

    Rayyan, A. (Curator)

    03.09.201622.12.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  84. Working in context - Garth Evans' Placement at the British Steel Corporation

    Jordan, U. (Speaker)

    22.08.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  85. Strafrechtskritik als Herrschaftskritik

    Dübgen, F. (Participant) & Mattutat, L. (Participant)

    25.07.201629.07.2016

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

  86. A la recherche d'un nouveau paradigme esthétique

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    27.06.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  87. La production de subjectivité comme enjeu du commun

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    24.06.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  88. Auf der Suche nach einem neuen ästhetischen Paradigma. Wahrheitsregime im Zeitalter der biopolitischen Produktion

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    16.06.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  89. INTERMOLECULAR SPACES 2016

    Rayyan, A. (Curator)

    10.06.201624.07.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  90. From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique

    Lochner, O. (Organiser), Mehl, I. (Speaker) & Kowalewski, L. (Speaker)

    01.06.2016

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

  91. 2016 Humanity in Action Summer Fellowship Program

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Participant)

    27.05.201626.06.2016

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

  92. The Social Apriori: Kant with Durkheim

    Hahn, T. (Speaker)

    19.05.201620.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  93. Der Hunger des Auges. Visuelle Rhetorik bei Erasmus

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    12.04.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  94. Arlene Raven: Collaborative Writing as Feminist Strategy

    Lochner, O. (Speaker)

    09.04.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  95. Trans­pa­ren­cy/​Opa­ci­ty

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Participant)

    06.04.2016

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

  96. 5th International LAVITS Symposium 2017

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Participant)

    03.2016

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

  97. 2015
  98. Im Horizont verheddert. Krazy Kat

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    18.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  99. Common Ground #2. On Spaces and the In Between

    John, R. (Curator), Faizal, N. (Artist), Bhow, R. (Artist) & Kelton, T. (Artist)

    12.11.201530.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  100. Die Rückkehr von Tim und Struppi ins Land der Philosophen

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    10.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  101. Art and Atrocity: Archives of Remembrance

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    05.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer