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. 2017
  2. Published

    Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures

    Leeker, M. (ed.), Schipper, I. (ed.) & Beyes, T. (ed.), 01.03.2017, Bielefeld : transcript Verlag. 300 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 11)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Erinnern Vergessen.

    Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, C. L., 03.01.2017, Tagungsband der studentischen Konferenz für interdisziplinäre Forschung ZUfo: Pfadabhängigkeit 2013, Speicher 2014. Jandeisek, I. & Mallwitz, M. (eds.). Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH, p. 409-425 17 p.

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

  4. Published

    Adorno’s Grey, Taussig’s Blue: Colour, organization and critical affect

    Beyes, T. & De Cock, C., 01.01.2017, In: Organization. 24, 1, p. 59-78 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    „Dan Flavin” / “Ilya Kabakov” / “Urs Fischer”

    Lochner, O., 2017, Moving is in every direction: Environments, Installationen, narrative Räume.: Ausstellungskatalog . Gebbers, A-C. & Knapstein, G. (eds.). Berlin: Kettler Druckverlag

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  6. Published

    Der Kaufmann und die Muttergottes: Zur Sichtbarmachung von Geld, Werten und Bewertungen

    Kuhn, H., 2017, Geld – Wert und Werte: Interdisziplinäre Annäherungen an ein Kulturphänomen. Schlitte, A., Denzler, A. & Huditz, F. (eds.). 1 ed. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 39-58 20 p.

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

  7. Published

    Ecologies of Making: On Tim Ingold´s General-Ecological Critique of Worldmaking

    Hörl, E., 2017, +ultra knowledge & gestaltung. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 45-53 9 p.

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

  8. Published

    Interieur

    Söntgen, B. E., 2017, Matisse - Bonnard: Es lebe die Malerei! . Krämer, F. & Museum, S. (eds.). München: Prestel Verlag, p. 81-87 7 p.

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

  9. Published

    Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes: Das Selbst in der digitalen Kultur

    Bernard, A., 2017, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. 236 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  10. Published

    Logistische Grenzlandschaften: Das Regime mobiler Arbeit nach dem „Sommer der Migration“

    Altenried, M. (ed.), Bojadžijev, M. (ed.), Höfler, L. J. (ed.), Mezzadra, S. (ed.) & Wallis, M. (ed.), 2017, Münster: Unrast Verlag. 208 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  11. Published

    Milieu: Zirkulationen und Transformationen eines Begriffs

    Wessely, C. M. R. & Huber, F., 2017, Milieu: Umgebungen des Lebendigen in der Moderne. Huber, F. & Wessely, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 7–17 11 p.

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