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. 2022
  2. Published

    Femizide. Versuch einer hegemonietheoretischen Deutung der Rechtsprechung

    Mattutat, L., 2022, In: Kritische Justiz. 55, 4, p. 453-466 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  3. Published

    Freie Rede

    Schneider, T., 2022, In: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur. 3, 2, p. 511-527 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  4. Published

    Im Zeichen des Zweifel(n)s. Madame Realism: oder: Die Funktion der Fiktion in der Kunstkritik

    Mehl, I., 2022, München: edition metzel. 360 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  5. Published

    Liquidity - Networks - Deterritorialisation: Allan Sekula's Critique of Flow

    Kuhn, H., 2022, Fluidity : Materials in Motion. Finke, M. & Nakas, K. (eds.). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, p. 39-58 20 p.

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

  6. Published

    Schuldiger Realismus

    Volz, J., 2022, Art Germania Miami Beach: Jody Korbach, Nicolai Saur, Nicholas Warburg. Hannover: feinkunst e.V., p. 14-21 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesTransfer

  7. Published

    Theoretical Practices: Review of Natalia Romé, For Theory: Althusser and the Politics of Time

    Hahn, T., 2022, In: Radical Philosophy. Spring 2022, RP 2.12, p. 90-93 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsTransfer

  8. 2021
  9. Published

    Die Wait Watchers

    Schneider, T., 10.12.2021, Aus alter Wurzel neue Kraft. Berresheims, T. (ed.). Aachen: Studios New Amerika, p. 27-42 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesTransfer

  10. Published

    Worauf warten?

    Schneider, T., 10.12.2021, Aus alter Wurzel neue Kraft. Berresheims, T. (ed.). Aachen: Studios New Amerika, p. 213-217 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesTransfer

  11. Published

    Die Gemeinschaft der Marginalisierten: Zum Verhältnis von westlichen Schwulen und arabischen Männern

    Volz, J., 08.12.2021, 16 p. Hamburg : Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsTransfer

  12. Published

    Eine Frage von Genauigkeit? Die gesellschaftspolitische Ausrichtung visueller Statistik bei William Playfair

    Sieber, J., 08.12.2021, Imagination und Genauigkeit: Verschränkungen in Künsten und Wissenschaften. Dätwyler, L., Klarskov, A. & Knierzinger, L. (eds.). Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, p. 25-42 18 p.

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

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