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. 2015
  2. Published

    Fictions of the Possible: Art, the City and Public Entrepreneurship

    Beyes, T., 27.10.2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 24, 4, p. 445-449 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Der Sinn der Lehre: Ethnographie, Affekt, sensemaking

    Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 2015, Vom Sinn der Soziologie: Festschrift für Thomas S. Eberle . Maeder, C., Brosziewski, A. & Nentwich, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 197-211 15 p.

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

  4. Published

    Formen des Kontakts: Auguste Renoirs Nach dem Mittagessen

    Söntgen, B. E., 2015, Monet und die Geburt des Impressionsmus. Krämer, F. (ed.). München: Prestel Verlag, p. 183-193 11 p.

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

  5. Published

    'Summoning art to save the city': A Note: 'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice

    Beyes, T., 2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 15, 1, p. 207-220 13 p., 15.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. 2014
  7. Published

    Performing university space: Multiplicity, Relationality, Affect

    Beyes, T. & Michels, C., 01.01.2014, The Physical University: Contours of Space and Place in Higher Education. Temple, P. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 15-33 19 p. 141021

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  8. Published

    Another new museum? Imagining the space of art in the creative city

    Beyes, T., Steyaert, C. & Michels, C., 2014, In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. 18, 3, p. 9-28 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Peter Sloterdijk (1947b)

    Beyes, T., 2014, The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies. Helin, J., Hernes, T., Hjorth, D. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 567-584 18 p.

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

  10. Published

    Transparenz und Geheimnis

    Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2014, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 8, 2, p. 111-117 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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