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

Topics

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

  1. 2018
  2. Published

    Activist Sense: Affective Media Practices during the G20 Summit in Hamburg

    Brunner, C., 03.2018, In: transversal / EIPCP multilingual webjournal. 2018, 3, 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  3. Published

    Die Heilige Sippe und die Mediengeschichte des Triptychons: Familie und Bildrhetorik in Quentin Massys’ Annenaltar

    Kuhn, H., 2018, 1 ed. Emsdetten/Berlin: Edition Imorde. 158 p. (imorde.instants; vol. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  4. Published

    Geist heute: Annäherungen an Traditionen der deutschen Philosophie

    Rózsa, E. (ed.), Cobben, P. (ed.) & Jamme, C. (ed.), 2018, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 147 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    General Ecology

    Hörl, E. H., 2018, Posthuman Glossary. Braidotti, R. & Hlavajova, M. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 172-175 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    General Intellect

    Nigro, R., 2018, In: Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. 2/2018, p. 67-70 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Nous sommes tous des prisonniers! Foucaults Genealogie des Gefängnisses.

    Mattutat, L., 2018, Strafe und Gefängnis: Theorie, Kritik und Alternativen - Eine Einführung. Malzahn, R. (ed.). 1 ed. Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag, p. 80-93 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Technoökologien / Technecologies / Tecnocologías

    Brunner, C. (ed.), España Naveira, K. (ed.), Minichbauer, R. (ed.), Mulvaney, K. (ed.) & Raunig, G. (ed.), 2018, Wien, Linz: eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies. (transversal; vol. 3/2018)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueTransfer

  10. Published

    Über Hinterbühnen und Fauxpas: Die Erinnerungskultur am Campus vor dem Hintergrund der „Leidenschaft der Ignoranz" sowie von Untermediatisierung in der Mediengesellschaft.

    Wuggenig, U., 2018, Die Rolle der Universität in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft im Wandel. Henkel, A., Hobuß, S., Jamme, C. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). 1. ed. Berlin: Pro BUSINESS Verlag, p. 175-182 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransfer

  11. Published

    Workerism

    Nigro, R., 2018, In: Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. 2/2018, p. 170-173 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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