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. 2017
  2. Images in Conflict

    Kowalewski, L. (Participant)

    17.05.201718.05.2017

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

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

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    12.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Divinity and Materialism

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    11.03.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 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

  9. transmediale 2017

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Moderator)

    31.01.201704.02.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. transmediale 2017

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Speaker)

    31.01.201704.02.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. ‘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

  12. 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

  13. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    20172018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Kritiken des Leidens

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. 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

  17. Positive und negative Kritik bei Deleuze und Adorno

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Princeton University

    Pias, C. (Visiting researcher)

    2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  19. 2016
  20. 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

  21. Othering und Performance-Kunst im postkolonialen Kontext

    Eduardo, S. (Speaker)

    26.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. 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

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

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    17.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  24. Strafen und Neoliberalismus

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser)

    03.11.201604.11.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Mattutat, L. (Speaker)

    31.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  26. 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

  27. Transparency and Temporality: Benjamin’s Caesura

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    14.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

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

    Hörl, E. H. (Speaker)

    10.2016 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  29. Freie Universität Berlin

    Pias, C. (Visiting researcher)

    10.201604.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

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

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    28.09.201602.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    21.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  32. 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

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

    Jordan, U. (Speaker)

    22.08.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  34. 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

  35. A la recherche d'un nouveau paradigme esthétique

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    27.06.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  36. La production de subjectivité comme enjeu du commun

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    24.06.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  37. 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

  38. INTERMOLECULAR SPACES 2016

    Rayyan, A. (Curator)

    10.06.201624.07.2016

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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. The Social Apriori: Kant with Durkheim

    Hahn, T. (Speaker)

    19.05.201620.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. Der Hunger des Auges. Visuelle Rhetorik bei Erasmus

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    12.04.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  43. Arlene Raven: Collaborative Writing as Feminist Strategy

    Lochner, O. (Speaker)

    09.04.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  44. Trans­pa­ren­cy/​Opa­ci­ty

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Participant)

    06.04.2016

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

  45. 5th International LAVITS Symposium 2017

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Participant)

    03.2016

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

  46. 2015
  47. Im Horizont verheddert. Krazy Kat

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    18.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. 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

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

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    10.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  50. Art and Atrocity: Archives of Remembrance

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    05.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  51. Common Ground #1. On Circles and Revolutions

    John, R. (Curator), Barve, Y. (Artist), Jain, P. (Artist) & Patil, A. (Artist)

    05.11.201510.11.2015

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