DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique"

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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

Topics

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

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    Lukas Stolz

    21.11.22

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  2. Queer, arabisch, lebensfroh

    Julian Volz

    25.10.22

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  3. Precolonial Trade in Tanzania

    Dyoniz Kindata

    01.10.22

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  4. “Ich bin ein treuer Anhänger der Kritischen Theorie!”

    Marlena von Wedel & Julian Volz

    21.09.22

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  5. Time of everyday life and pandemic

    Volha Davydzik

    22.06.22

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  6. Uncivil Society: Artist-Talk with Jonas Höschl

    Julian Volz & Jonas Höschl

    04.06.22

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