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. 2020
  2. Published

    Archaeologies of Contemporary Art: Negativity, Inoperativity, Désœuvrement

    Rauch, M. F., 12.2020, In: Journal of Italian Philosophy. 3, p. 191–215 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  3. Published

    »keep the contemporaryartmuseum groovy – keep the home fires burning«. Zum Verhältnis von feministischer Kritik und Kunstinstitutionen

    Wulff, N., 01.11.2020, In: Feministische Studien. 38, 2, p. 256-272 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Relating to water, spaces, and other agents. On the journey behind Juliane Tübke’s project Weathering

    John, R., 01.11.2020, Sirene – Goldrausch 2020. Dell, K. & Kruse, H. (eds.). Berlin: Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk Berlin e.V.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer

  5. Published

    Rezension zu: Georges Bataille (Hrgs.): Hegel, der Mensch und die Geschichte, Hamburg 2018, Verlag Matthes & Seit.

    Rauch, M. F., 11.2020, In: Hegel-Studien. 53/54, p. 338-341 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  6. Published

    Critique: The Stakes of Form

    Kuhn, H. (ed.), Mehl, I. (ed.), Khatib, S. (ed.), Söntgen, B. (ed.) & Lochner, O. (ed.), 28.07.2020, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag. 352 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Decorating Charleston Farm house: Bloomsbury's Experiments in Forms of Life, Work, and Art

    Söntgen, B., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 139-176 36 p.

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

  8. Published

    Feedback Systems: Artwriting as Critique?

    Mehl, I., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 175-184 10 p.

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

  9. Published

    How to Do Materialistic Dialectics with Words? Adorno and the Resistance of Presentation

    Stubenrauch, H., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 37 - 52 16 p.

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

  10. Published

    "To Arlene on Wings of Love": Shared Forms of Life, Art, and Writing

    Lochner, O., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 117-138 22 p.

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

  11. Published

    What's legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights

    Mattutat, L. (ed.), Nigro, R. (ed.), Schiel, N. (ed.) & Stubenrauch, H. (ed.), 28.07.2020, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 304 p. (Critical Stances)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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