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
- 2006
Horst Janssen und die Niederländer des 17. Jahrhunderts 2006
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
15.07.2006 → 31.10.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Dosen - Vasen - Kaffeekannen 2006
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
19.03.2006 → 18.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
- 2005
Licht im Dunkeln 2005
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
04.12.2005 → 26.02.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
"Doing what you are Examining: Performativity in Research and Writing“
Melcher Ruhkopf (Organiser), Stasya Korotkova (Organiser), Melcher Ruhkopf (Organiser), Ben Trott (Organiser) & Mimmi Woisnitza (Organiser)
31.07.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Cities and Creativity: Urban Ethnographies MA Seminar - 2018
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
01.04.2005 → 15.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
- 2004
BA Seminar "Strategische Herausforderungen in Nonprofit-Organisationen" - 2005
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2004 → 15.07.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2004 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Raumerweiterungshalle Leipzig (External organisation)
Ulrike Jordan (Member)
2004 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
- 2001
Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2001 → 2006Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer