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. 2022
  2. Guy Hocquenghem - historische Sexualwissenschaft und queerer Marxismus

    Betzler, L. (Speaker) & Branding, J.-H. (Speaker)

    15.12.2022

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

  3. (Counter-)logistisches Wissen im Museum: Flows und Reibungen ausstellen

    Ruhkopf, M. (Speaker)

    09.12.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Another End of the World is Possible: Beyond Climate Fatalism and Cruel Eco-Optimism

    Stolz, L. (Speaker)

    24.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Kunstgeschichte ´68. Zur Kritik einer Wissenschaft ohne Geschichte und Gegenwart

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    23.11.2022

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

  6. Infrastructures of Care

    Davydzik, V. (Panel participant), Mahmoudian, A. (Panel participant), Kochubinska, T. (Panel participant), Bumblienė, N. (Panel participant) & Stebur, A. (Panel participant)

    22.11.2022

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

  7. 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

  8. Einführung in das Asylrecht

    Bescherer, K. (Speaker)

    24.06.2022

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

  9. Das Strafrecht als Infrastruktur zur Organisation von Hegemonie. Ein „okzidentales“ Hegemonieprojekt in der Rechtsprechung zu Femiziden

    Mattutat, L. (Oral presentation)

    23.06.202224.06.2022

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

  10. Politics of Deathdrive - Dis/Identification, Transgression, War

    Hahn, T. (Organiser), Diefenbach, K. (Organiser), Kellner, J. (Organiser), Linstädter, P. (Organiser) & Wilkens, R. (Organiser)

    16.06.202217.06.2022

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

  11. Tanzania’s Philosophies of War: From 1885 to the Present

    Kindata, D. (Speaker)

    15.06.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Tera Kuno e.V. (External organisation)

    Felicitas Sabel, L. (Office)

    06.2022 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  13. Online-Workshop "From Dream to Zine. Schreib- und Darstellungsweisen zwischen Wissenschaft und künstlerischer Praxis"

    John, R. H. (Organiser) & Wulff, N. (Organiser)

    28.05.202229.05.2022

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

  14. Scroll

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    16.05.2022

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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Kritische Theorie und die Studierendenbewegung um Hans-Jürgen Krahl

    Volz, J. (Speaker), Kapfinger, E. (Speaker) & Gerber, M. (Speaker)

    05.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  18. Looking at Workers, Working with Workers. 1970s Arbeiterfilm in West Germany

    Jordan, U. (Speaker)

    31.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  19. Marivi Véliz. Absentees: Some Effects of Violence in Latin American Performance Art in the 21st Century

    Jordan, U. (Organiser) & Eduardo, S. (Organiser)

    18.03.2022

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

  20. Doing Care - Telling Care

    Mattutat, L. (Oral presentation) & Niehaus, J. (Oral presentation)

    24.02.202225.02.2022

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

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