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
- 2019
Marx from the Margins: Discussing Marxism from a Post-Colonial Perspective 2019
John, R. (Organiser), Dhawan, N. (Speaker) & do Mar Castro Varela, M. (Speaker)
15.11.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Eternal Irony – critique as the feminine?
Szasz, C. (Speaker)
07.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Das Phantasma der Vorhersage. Zukunftsberechnung und ihre Kritik
Warnsholdt, C. L. (Speaker)
02.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Suffrage spéculative
Warnsholdt, C. L. (Panel participant)
11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz
Warnsholdt, C. L. (Visiting researcher)
01.10.2019 → 30.06.2020Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Forschungsfeld Hafen
Ruhkopf, M. (Speaker) & Kosok, L. (Speaker)
10.2019 → 09.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Worlding – nudges for posthuman play
John, R. (Organiser), Thieroff, S.-C. (Organiser) & Müller, L. M. (Organiser)
27.09.2019 → 28.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Es geht um
Schneider, T. (Curator)
13.09.2019 → 25.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Towards a Blackosmopolitical Proposal: Decolonization Perspectives through the Shift to Singular Knowledges
Genidogan, K. (Speaker)
05.09.2019 → 07.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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)
01.08.2019 → 30.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
How to Organize Well? Participatory Platforms, New Modes of Value, Municipalist Movements.
Brunner, C. (Speaker)
16.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
There Is No Time Like The Present
Warnsholdt, C. L. (Speaker)
28.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Walk & Talk. Thinking about Neighborhoods and Communities
John, R. (Speaker), Blace, Z. (Speaker), Mathews, D. (Speaker), Nijboer, S. (Speaker) & McCormick, J. (Speaker)
28.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019
Beyes, T. (Organiser), Pias, C. (Organiser) & Pinkrah, N. Y. (Organiser)
24.06.2019 → 28.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
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)
22.06.2019 → 04.08.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Édouard Glissant and Architecture
Pinkrah, N. Y. (Speaker)
18.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
An Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing relational Aesthetics considering critical Ecologies.
Brunner, C. (Speaker) & Kleesattel, I. (Speaker)
14.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Between Disorder and Control – Cybernetic Chronotopes in Crisis
Warnsholdt, C. L. (Speaker)
08.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
"Crowds and Party" Reading Workshop with Jody Dean - 2019
Warnsholdt, C. L. (Organiser), Kohpeiß, H. (Organiser) & Stubenrauch, H. (Organiser)
29.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Counter Cartography: Agamben – Debord – On Kawara
Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)
23.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer