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

    Vierzig Jahre "Überwachen und Strafen": Zur Aktualität der Foucault'schen Machtanalyse

    Rölli, M. (ed.) & Nigro, R. (ed.), 2017, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 227 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

  3. Published

    Vom Macht-Wissen-Dispositiv zum Wahrheitsregime

    Nigro, R., 2017, Vierzig Jahre "Überwachen und Strafen": Zur Aktualität der Foucault'schen Machtanalyse. . Nigro, R. & Rölli, M. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 175-196 22 p.

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

  4. Published

    Warum die Regel von der Ausnahme lebt: Der Ausnahmezustand als Strukturmoment des Rechts

    Mattutat, L., 2017, Ausnahmezustand: Theoriegeschichte – Anwendungen – Perspektiven. Lemke, M. (ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 13-26 14 p. (Staat - Souveränität - Nation).

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

  5. 2016
  6. Published

    Is there a post-racism? On David Theo Goldberg's conjunctural analysis of the post-racial

    Bojadžijev, M., 20.10.2016, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39, 13, p. 2235-2240 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Municipalismos monstruo | Monster Municipalisms | Monster-Munizipalismen

    Brunner, C. (ed.), Kubaczek, N. (ed.), Mulvaney, K. (ed.) & Raunig, G. (ed.), 09.2016, Wien: eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies. (transversal; no. 9)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  8. Published

    Art, Aesthetics and Organization

    Beyes, T., 26.08.2016, A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies. Czarniawska, B. (ed.). 1 ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 115-125 11 p. (Elgar research agendas).

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

  9. Published

    A Case for Media Infrastructures: A Comment on Activism in Landscapes

    Pinkrah, N. Y., 06.2016, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 3, 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Front, Field, Line, Plane: Researching the Militant Image

    Wuggenig, U. (ed.), Loichinger, H. C. (ed.), Kastelan, C., Derksen, J., Milevska, S., Bitter, S. & Weber, H., 06.2016, Hamburg: adocs. 120 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesExhibition cataloguesResearch

  11. Published

    The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education

    Steyaert, C. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Parker, M. (ed.), 31.05.2016, London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 550 p. (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  12. Published

    Weder Herren noch Knechte: Christoph Menke kritisiert die Form subjektiver Rechte und plädiert für ein Recht der Gegenrechte.

    Mattutat, L., 08.04.2016, 6 p. Hamburg

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch