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. 2021
  2. Published

    Eine Revolution des Begehrens? Guy Hocquenghem und der Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire

    Betzler, L. (ed.) & Branding, J-H. (ed.), 08.12.2021, Hamburg : Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    „L’Internationale des Gouines et des Pédales“: Guy Hocquenghem und der Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire

    Betzler, L. & Branding, H., 08.12.2021, 17 p. Hamburg : Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  4. Published

    Jenseits von Identität und Arbeit. Impulse der Kampagne Lohn für Hausarbeit für eine politische Theorie und Praxis der Sorge

    Mattutat, L., 23.11.2021, Hannover : Institut für Politische Wissenschaft - Leibniz Universität Hannover.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsTransfer

  5. Published

    Segment Introduction

    Nigro, R. & Hörl, E., 01.10.2021, Taking Sides: Theories, Practices, and Cultures of Participation in Dissent. Bippus, E., Ganzert, A. & Otto, I. (eds.). 1 ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, Vol. 28. p. 251-257 7 p. (Culture & theory; vol. 211).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  6. Published

    Paul Paolucci. Marx’s Experiments and Microscopes: Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions

    Hahn, T., 03.09.2021, Canterbury : Marx and Philosophy Society.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsTransfer

  7. Published

    Isolation Playground

    Stolz, L., Diaz, A. & Scherrieble, L., 08.2021, In: A Peer-reviewed Journal About --. 10, 1, p. 6 1 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Lonzi Lesen

    Lochner, O. & Mehl, I., 31.01.2021, Carla Lonzi. Selbstbewusstwerdung: Schriften zu Kunst und Feminismus. Zapperi, G. (ed.). b-books, p. 175 - 184 10 p.

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

  9. Published

    An-arche and Indifference: Between Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, and Reiner Schürmann

    Rauch, M. F., 2021, In: Philosophy Today. 65, 3, p. 619-636 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Crisis - Unrest - Commons Sense: Melanie Gilligan, Critique and the Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

    Kuhn, H., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnholdt, C. L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 147-184 38 p.

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

  11. Published

    Critique and the Digital

    Hörl, E. (ed.), Pinkrah, N. Y. (ed.) & Warnsholdt, C. L. (ed.), 2021, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag. 296 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

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