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

Main research areas

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

  1. 2025
  2. Film Making in the 'Capital of the Third World'

    Volz, J. (Organiser) & Fischione, F. (Organiser)

    26.05.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  3. Beyond the Family. Spatiality, Modes of (Re)production and Forme of Life

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)

    11.04.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  4. (Re-)Naming Natures: Knowing and Collecting Otherwise

    Felicitas Sabel, L. (Panel participant)

    21.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. LIAS Workshop: Beyond Restitution: Indigenous Practices, Museums and Heritage

    Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser)

    07.02.202508.02.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  6. LIAS Workshop: Beyond Restitution: Indigenous Practices, Museums and Heritage

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Organiser), Rother, L. (Organiser), Leeb, S. (Organiser), Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser), Moreschi, B. (Organiser) & Pitta, F. (Organiser)

    07.02.202508.02.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. 2024
  8. Algeria’s contribution to Third Cinema: The case of Sarah Maldoror’s Monangambeee

    Volz, J. (Speaker)

    09.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Water calls: indigenous perspectives

    Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser)

    01.12.202431.12.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  10. Decolonizing Aesthetic Materials in Times of Catastrophe

    Felicitas Sabel, L. (Speaker)

    01.11.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  11. Muralist Practices of the Algerian Avant-Gardes in the 1960s & '70s

    Volz, J. (Speaker)

    10.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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  9. Introduction to the symposium on feminist perspectives on human–nature relations
  10. Ästhetische Bildung der Differenz
  11. Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions
  12. Systemic aspects of auditory interactive art in the public sphere.
  13. Measuring plant root traits under controlled and field conditions
  14. Zufall mit System
  15. Priority effects and ecological restoration
  16. Prediction of improvement in quality of life (QoL-AGHDA) in adults with growth hormone deficiency by normative reference limits: data of the German KIMS cohort
  17. Context, contexts and appropriateness
  18. Influence of the amount of intermetallics on the degradation of Mg-Nd alloys under physiological conditions
  19. “Self-centered, self-promoting, and self-legitimizing”
  20. Theories of Development of Democracy
  21. Notting Hill Gate 4 Basic
  22. How passion in entrepreneurship develops over time
  23. Amtsmenschen
  24. Practice What You Preach?
  25. The structure of contributing factors of human error in safety-critical industries
  26. Wem gehört der Wind?
  27. Studies on the myth's function in Holderlin's 'Feiertagshymne'
  28. Multimodality
  29. Motivation und Verhalten
  30. The technology-mindset interactions
  31. Mythos
  32. When (and how) ideas become arguments
  33. Managing Strategic Alliances through a Community-Enabled Balanced Scorecard
  34. The Making of Urban Computing Environments
  35. A comprehensive method for determination of fatty acids in the initial oral biofilm (pellicle)