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. 2016
  2. Published

    Formen der Kunstrezeption in der Moderne: Übertragung (Diderot) und Reflexion (Greenberg)

    Söntgen, B. E., 03.2016, Handbuch Sprache in der Kunstkommunikation. Hausendorf, H. & Müller, M. (eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 135-152 18 p. (Handbücher Sprachwissen; vol. 16).

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

  3. Published

    Mit Wut ans Bild: Beate Söntgen über Joan Mitchell im Museum Ludwig, Köln

    Söntgen, B. E., 03.2016, In: Texte zur Kunst. 26, 101, p. 171-174 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  4. Published

    Ablehnungskultur: Die Figuren der Anderen

    Bojadžijev, M., 2016, In: SPW. 217, p. 42-47 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  5. Published

    Das Problem der Unbestimmtheit des Rechts: Konsequenzen für die theoretische und die praktische Rechtskritik

    Mattutat, L., 2016, In: Kritische Justiz. 49, 4, p. 496–508 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Demokratie und Postdemokratie: Die "Herrschaft des Volkes" bei Jacques Rancière

    Klasen, L. & Mattutat, L., 2016, Postdemokratie und die Verleugnung des Politischen. Unterthurner, G. & Hetzel, A. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 41–56 16 p. ( Zeitgenössische Diskurse des Politischen; vol. 11).

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

  7. Published

    Die Steine von Venedig: Neu komponiert von Catharina Berents und Wolfgang Kemp

    Berents-Kemp, C. (ed.) & Kemp, W. K. (ed.), 2016, Wiesbaden: Corso Verlag. 296 p. (Corso; vol. 52)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  8. Published

    Die vertrackte Urteilsform: Ein Argument zur Frage der Rechtsgeltung mit und gegen Hans Kelsen, Gustav Radbruch und Carl Schmitt

    Mattutat, L., 2016, 1. Aufl. ed. Marburg: Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag. 113 p. (Darmstädter Arbeiten zur Literaturwissenschaft und Philosophie; vol. 15)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Doing Commons: Gentrifizierung oder das Ringen um das Gemeinsame im städtischen Raum

    Bojadžijev, M., 2016, In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde. 119, 3+4, p. 273-292 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  10. Published

    Ein Buch über Steine: Einführung

    Berents-Kemp, C. & Kemp, W. K., 2016, Die Steine von Venedig : Neu komponiert von Catharina Berents und Wolfgang Kemp. Berents, C. & Kemp, W. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Corso Verlag, p. 9-14 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer

  11. Published

    Holding the Blanks in Place: Knowledge and Its Loss in the Works of Lizza May David

    Lochner, O., 2016, Liza May David: The canvas and the monkey: Ausstellungskatalog mit Texts von Oona Lochner, Ma. Victoria T. Herrera, Anna-Lena Wenzel . Berlin: Kerber Verlag

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer