DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique"

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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
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    Introduction

    Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L., 2021, Critique and the Digital . Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7 - 24 18 p. (Critical Stances).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

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    Jungfräuliche Membranen: Vom Pergament zum iPad

    Kuhn, H., 2021, Hautlichkeit : Oberflächen in Wissenschaft und Design. Schnödl, G. & Windgätter, C. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 161-180 20 p. (DesignWissen; vol. 3).

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

  5. Published

    Landnahme, analog und digital. Ursprüngliche Akkumulation in den Kontrollgesellschaften

    Nigro, R. & Stubenrauch, H., 2021, In: Behemoth : a Journal on Civilization. 14, 2, p. 61-74 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Looking at workers, working with workers: Struggles and Experiments in Collaboration in West German Arbeiterfilm in the 1970s

    Jordan, U., 2021, IDENTITY IS THE CRISIS. Fischer, J. H. (ed.). 4 ed. Other Forms, Vol. 2021. p. 38-57 20 p. (Countersignals; vol. 4).

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

  7. Published

    Marina F. Bykova, Kenneth R. Westphal (Hrsg.) The Palgrave Hegel Handbook

    Szasz, C. N., 2021, In: Hegel-Studien. 55, p. 246-248 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

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    Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Peter Ludwigs Picasso-Bild

    Schneider, T., 2021, Der geteilte Picasso : Der Künstler und sein Bild in der BRD und der DDR. Friedrich, J. (ed.). Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, p. 211-214 4 p.

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

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    Reading Marx: On Transcendental Materialism; lecture notes for courses at the New School for Social Research (Fall 1977)

    Schürmann, R., Rauch, M. F. (ed.) & Schneider, N. (ed.), 2021, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 159 p. (Selected writings and lecture notes)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

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    The Grime of Critique

    Warnsholdt, C. L., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 205-228 24 p.

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

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    The organizational a priori: Critique of the digital as critique of organization

    Beyes, T., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnholdt, C. L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 229-248 20 p.

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

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