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
- 2021
L’art comme non-savoir: Deaktivierung, Désœuvrement, Unlearning
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)
15.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Tragic Differing, Discordant Times: Reiner Schürmann’s Ruins
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)
02.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e. V. (External organisation)
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Speaker) & Felicitas Sabel, L. (Member)
06.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
A Phenomenological Destruction of Ontology? Reiner Schürmann’s Reading of Marx and Heidegger
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker) & Schneider, N. (Speaker)
29.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
HOW? Questions of methodology, intentionality, and situatedness in research as a (critical) praxis
Eduardo, S. (Organiser), Genidogan, K. (Organiser), Sieber, J. (Organiser) & Buchinger, A. (Organiser)
26.05.2021 → 28.05.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Arlene Raven and the Feminist Studio Workshop
Lochner, O. (Oral presentation)
18.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
FULL ON ... MASK HYSTERIA: NEW AND OLD NORMALITIES
Schneider, T. (Speaker)
01.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Recht und Moral
Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
26.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Strafzwecktheorien und ihre Kritik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie
Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
26.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (2nd part) 2021
Kuhn, H. (Organiser), Stürmer, M. (Organiser) & Denecke, M. (Organiser)
22.04.2021 → 23.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
From Where I Stand meets Pact of Silence – How to break it? Institutional critique & instituting otherwise from a feminist perspective
Ahldag, A. (Speaker), Thirukode, M. (Speaker), John, R. H. (Organiser), Lochner, O. (Organiser), Mehl, I. (Organiser) & Wulff, N. (Organiser)
16.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Forschungskolloquium unter der Leitung von Prof. Bénédicte Savoy
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Participant)
04.2021 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Kritik als Arbeit in den Lücken
Sieber, J. (Oral presentation) & Szasz, C. (Oral presentation)
26.02.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Schwule Politik der Zerstreuung
Branding, J.-H. (Panel participant), Betzler, L. (Panel participant) & Idier, A. (Panel participant)
15.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
33rd Swahlili Colloqium
Kindata, D. (Organiser)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
After Progress
Stolz, L. (Organiser), Savransky, M. (Curator) & Lundy, C. (Curator)
2021 → 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Athens School of Fine Arts (External organisation)
Stolz, L. (Member)
2021 → 2022Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
RecAf Spring School 2021
Kindata, D. (Participant)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
RecAf Winter School 2021
Kindata, D. (Participant)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- 2020
Topologie der Kritik: Über Gebrochene Hegemonien
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)
15.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education