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

    Milieu. Umgebungen des Lebendigen in der Moderne

    Huber, F. (ed.) & Wessely, C. M. R. (ed.), 2017, 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 184 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Neoliberalismus im Vollzug: Gibt es einen "Prison-Industrial-Complex" in Deutschland?

    Dübgen, F. & Mattutat, L., 2017, In: WestEnd. 2, p. 77-98 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Nietzsche und der Mythos

    Jamme, C., 2017, Bild und Gedanke : Hermann Schweppenhäuser zum Gedenken. Schweppenhäuser, G. (ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, p. 239-243 5 p.

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

  5. Published

    Offener Brief zur Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe an die Justizminister*innen

    Studentische Arbeitsgruppe "Strafrechtskritik als Herrschaftskritik", 2017, In: Kritische Justiz. 50, 2, p. 223-225 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  6. Published

    Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002): Die Feld-Kapital-Habitus Theorie der Künste

    Wuggenig, U., 2017, Klassiker der Soziologie der Künste: Prominente und bedeutende Ansätze. Steuerwald, C. (ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 731–798 68 p. (Kunst und Gesellschaft).

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

  7. Published

    Profil

    Bernard, A., 2017, Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen. Beyes, T., Metelmann, J. & Pias, C. (eds.). Berlin: Tempus Corporate GmbH, p. 38-48 11 p. (Duisburger Dialoge).

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

  8. Published

    Sky's the Limit

    Wulff, N., 2017, In: Kultur & Gespenster. 18, p. 271-276 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    "to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer. Artistic Practices around 1990"

    Kuhn, H., 2017, In: Provence : An Eight Issue Magazine Dedicated to Hobbies. C, Spring/Summer 2017, p. 63-66 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  10. Published

    Trauer um Professor Dr. Hermann Schweppenhäuser

    Wuggenig, U., 2017, Bild und Gedanke: Hermann Schweppenhäuser zum Gedenken. Schweppenhäuser, G. (ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 31-33 3 p.

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

  11. Published

    Unfreiwillig mit Schmitt: Die Rezeption Carl Schmitts in der Demokratietheorie Chantal Mouffes

    Mattutat, L. & Breuning, F., 2017, Radikale Demokratie: Zum Staatsverständnis von Chantal Mouffe und Ernesto Laclau. Hetzel, A. (ed.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 65-84 20 p. (Staatsverständnisse; vol. 104).

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