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. 2019
  2. Marx from the Margins: Discussing Marxism from a Post-Colonial Perspective 2019

    John, R. (Organiser), Dhawan, N. (Speaker) & do Mar Castro Varela, M. (Speaker)

    15.11.2019

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

  3. Eternal Irony – critique as the feminine?

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    07.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Das Phantasma der Vorhersage. Zukunftsberechnung und ihre Kritik

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Speaker)

    02.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Suffrage spéculative

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Panel participant)

    11.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Visiting researcher)

    01.10.201930.06.2020

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  7. Forschungsfeld Hafen

    Ruhkopf, M. (Speaker) & Kosok, L. (Speaker)

    10.201909.2020

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

  8. Worlding – nudges for posthuman play

    John, R. (Organiser), Thieroff, S.-C. (Organiser) & Müller, L. M. (Organiser)

    27.09.201928.09.2019

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

  9. Es geht um

    Schneider, T. (Curator)

    13.09.201925.10.2019

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

  10. Towards a Blackosmopolitical Proposal: Decolonization Perspectives through the Shift to Singular Knowledges

    Genidogan, K. (Speaker)

    05.09.201907.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Solitude Cinema

    John, R. (Curator), Badhwar, K. (Artist), Goel, S. (Artist), Heredia, S. (Artist), Manna, J. (Artist), Marziano, A. (Artist), Paul, P. (Artist) & Prabir, S. A. (Artist)

    01.08.201930.09.2019

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

  12. How to Organize Well? Participatory Platforms, New Modes of Value, Municipalist Movements.

    Brunner, C. (Speaker)

    16.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. There Is No Time Like The Present

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Speaker)

    28.06.2019

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

  14. Walk & Talk. Thinking about Neighborhoods and Communities

    John, R. (Speaker), Blace, Z. (Speaker), Mathews, D. (Speaker), Nijboer, S. (Speaker) & McCormick, J. (Speaker)

    28.06.2019

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

  15. Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser), Pias, C. (Organiser) & Pinkrah, N. Y. (Organiser)

    24.06.201928.06.2019

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

  16. Arbeitsgruppe Kunst. 50 Jahre neue Gesellschaft

    Jordan, U. (Curator), Hanussek, C. (Curator), Kruse, H. (Curator), Schier, V. (Curator), von Schubert, O. (Curator), Sengezer, E. (Curator), Voswinckel, A. (Curator), Altin, Ö. (Artist), Creischer, A. (Artist), Siekmann, A. (Artist), Pušija, N. N. (Artist) & Safoğlu, A. (Artist)

    22.06.201904.08.2019

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

  17. Édouard Glissant and Architecture

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Speaker)

    18.06.2019

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

  18. An Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing relational Aesthetics considering critical Ecologies.

    Brunner, C. (Speaker) & Kleesattel, I. (Speaker)

    14.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Between Disorder and Control – Cybernetic Chronotopes in Crisis

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Speaker)

    08.06.2019

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

  20. "Crowds and Party" Reading Workshop with Jody Dean - 2019

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Organiser), Kohpeiß, H. (Organiser) & Stubenrauch, H. (Organiser)

    29.05.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. Counter Cartography: Agamben – Debord – On Kawara

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    23.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

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