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
- 2020
Critique de la Circulation: Constant, Debord, and the Design of Environments
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)
11.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (1st part)
Kuhn, H. (Organiser), Stürmer, M. (Organiser) & Denecke, M. (Organiser)
10.12.2020 → 11.12.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Cutting Across Lines: Lil Picard and the Reorienting Effects of Collage
Lochner, O. (Speaker)
03.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
10. Interdisziplinärer Niedersächsischer Doktorand_innentag Gender Studies der LAGEN 2020
John, R. (Moderator)
30.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vom Ausgraben und Beerdigen der Fotografie. Memory Work und Archivkritik in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Akram Zaatari
John, R. (Speaker)
30.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Rhetorik – Kritik – Mondialisation. Zur rhetorischen Analytik strategischer Züge des Handelns beim Reden - 2020
John, R. (Organiser), Rauch, M. F. (Organiser) & Kuzema, V. (Organiser)
26.11.2020 → 27.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Crisis, Unrest, Common Sense. Environmental Societies of Control in the Films of Melanie Gilligan
Kuhn, H. (Oral presentation)
25.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
How to bridge the Distances: Strategies of Solidarity in Times of Need
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
12.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
Körper: Wörter - Textilien - Territorien
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
12.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Zum Verhältnis von feministischer Kritik und Immunität in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren. Eine Untersuchung zu Ausgrenzung und Vereinnahmung
Wulff, N. (Speaker)
12.11.2020 → 13.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Transfer
Knowledge Space(s) of Globalization – Musealizing Things, People and Spaces of Global Trade
Ruhkopf, M. (Speaker)
30.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Archäologie des Dispositivs: Zwischen Foucault und Agamben
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker) & Schönher, M. (Lecturer)
11.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
On Race & Ecocide: Thinking of New Forms of Environmentality and Eco-Colonialism
Genidogan, K. (Speaker)
14.05.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
TASAWAR Studio 7
Volz, J. (Speaker)
05.03.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Regina José Galindo’s Delinking and Incarnations. Bodily practices of (de-)coloniality and sex-gender
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
20.02.2020 → 21.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Verein engagée. politisch-philosophische Einmischungen (External organisation)
Stolz, L. (Member)
2020 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
- 2019
Medien des Zerfalls: Adorno – Benjamin – Bataille
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)
13.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Response to Philip Hogh: Suffering, Pain and the Idea of Progress
Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)
05.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
BAKJ-Kongress: „Sicherheitsgesellschaft und Perspektiven der Gegenwehr“
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
30.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference ''The Unforseen'' - 2019
Kuhn, H. (Moderator)
16.11.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research