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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
- 2016
Freie Universität Berlin
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
10.2016 → 04.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Transparency and Temporality: Benjamin’s Caesura
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
14.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Lesung - Susan Taubes: Der letzte Tanz und andere Erzählungen
Charlotte Szasz (presenter)
28.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Problem gelöst? Nein heißt Nein!: Podiumsdiskussion zur Reform des Sexualstrafrechts
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
31.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Strafen und Neoliberalismus
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
03.11.2016 → 04.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The compatibility of knowing and believing in Quentin Meillassoux’s Divine« Inexistence
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
17.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Der gemarterte Körper. Der Schmerz des Selbst und der Anderen von Kafka bis Pasolini
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
23.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Othering und Performance-Kunst im postkolonialen Kontext
Sebastian Eduardo (Speaker)
26.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Die feinen Unterschiede in den Werken von Bertrand Lavier
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
01.12.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
- 2017
33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017 → 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kritiken des Leidens
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kultur & Gespenster (Journal)
Nele Wulff (Editor), Philipp Goll (Editor), Elena Malzew (Editor), Gustav Mechlenburg (Editor), Britta Peters (Editor), Nora Sdun (Editor), Andrea Becker-Weimann (Editor-in-Chief) & Hans-Christian Dany (Editor-in-Chief)
2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Positive und negative Kritik bei Deleuze und Adorno
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Princeton University
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
The Value of Critique
Laura Kowalewski (Speaker)
19.01.2017 → 20.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘
Jeremias Herberg (presenter), Oliver Leistert (Coauthor), Esther Maria Meyer (Coauthor), Gregor Schmieg (Coauthor), Isabell Schrickel (Coauthor), Guido Caniglia (Coauthor), Manfred Laubichler (Coauthor), Erich Hörl (Coauthor), Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor) & Ulrike Vilsmaier (Coauthor)
23.01.2017 → 24.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Moderator)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Stipendiat*innentagung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2017
Oona Lochner (presenter)
24.02.2017 → 26.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Divinity and Materialism
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
11.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Was sind digitale Kulturen? MA Seminar
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2017 → 15.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Workshop with Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks
Holger Kuhn (Moderator) & Michael Hardt (Speaker)
09.05.2017 → 10.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Founding moral theory: a Meillassouxian perspective on Kant’s postulate problem
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
VIDEO ACTIVISM CONFERENCE BERLIN 2017
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
12.05.2017 → 13.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Images in Conflict
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
17.05.2017 → 18.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Laura Kowalewski (Organiser) & Isabel Mehl (Organiser)
01.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Between the Wage and the Commons
Holger Kuhn (Moderator)
05.06.2017 → 06.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Susan Taubes’ Heideggerian reading of Marx’s ›telos‹
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
09.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Common Ground #3. Where the Circles Intersect
Rebecca John (Curator), Yogesh Barve (Artist), Poonam Jain (Artist), Amol Patil (Artist), Ragini Bhow (Artist), Nihaal Faiza (Artist) & Tara Kelton (Artist)
20.06.2017 → 18.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Privacy by Design. Überwachung, Selbst, Kontrolle
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Keynote Speaker)
22.06.2017 → 23.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Searching for the Common Ground. The Role of Female Artists in India after 1990
Rebecca John (Organiser), Ragini Bhow (Participant) & Poonam Jain (Participant)
26.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Dialogue between Art History and Regional Studies: How Can a Transcultural Perspective Question the Canon and Enrich the Discipline of Art History? - 2017
Rebecca John (Organiser), Eva Dr. Ehninger (Speaker), Monica Prof. Dr. Juneja (Speaker) & Jamila Adeli (Speaker)
04.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2017 GEM Summer Institute
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Participant)
15.07.2017 → 30.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Summerschool "Rhetorik(en) der Literaturwissenschaft" 2017
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
23.07.2017 → 30.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
my form is myself.
Isabel Mehl (Participant)
28.08.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
my form is myself.
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
28.08.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Grenzen
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
12.09.2017 → 15.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Neue Materialismen: Quentin Meillassoux’ Ästhetik
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
15.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Medien der Assistenz. Accessability und Digitale Kulturen
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Panel participant)
04.10.2017 → 07.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
One hundred years that shook the world
Till Hahn (Speaker)
05.10.2017 → 07.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Se déprendre de soi-même
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
12.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium social critique - 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies Writing Workshop
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
19.10.2017 → 20.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Foucault trifft Latour
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
27.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Erfindung des Gemeinsamen: zur Kritik des Privaten und des Öffentlichen
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
02.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Fissures: Reiner Schürmann’s Genealogy of the Apperceptive Subject
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
02.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Von der doppelten Mimesis zum double bind – Ian Hamilton Finlays visuelle Narrative
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
02.11.2017 → 03.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Gerechtigkeit oder Kritik der Macht? Der Kampf um die Gleichfreiheit und die Eroberung von Räumen der Freiheit
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
06.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Isabel Mehl (Organiser)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Laura Kowalewski (Organiser)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique
Oona Lochner (Organiser), Isabel Mehl (Speaker) & Laura Kowalewski (Speaker)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Wien Depot: Podiumsdiskussion
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
09.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Post-X Politics
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Panel participant)
21.11.2017 → 23.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Post-X Politics - – Internationaler Workshop zu den Herausforderungen des digitalen Wandels
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser)
21.11.2017 → 23.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Art of Criticism
Oona Lochner (Participant)
21.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
„Positive“ Kritik
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 26.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
„Positive“ Kritik
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 25.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Positiv/Negativ-Dialog. (mit Rebecca Ardner, Oona Lochner, Isabel Mehl, Aliya Rayyan, Heiko Stubenrauch)
Elisabeth Heymer (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 26.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Raus aus dem elitären Zirkel? Kunst, Kritik und Öffentlichkeit
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
27.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
29.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017
Elisabeth Heymer (Organiser)
29.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2018
6th Terra Ciritca: Critique and/as Technology
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
meson press (Publisher)
Andreas Bernard (Editor)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
Terra Critica Workshop: Cultures of Critique - 2018
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
CritiqueLab. Toolkits for Critique in Digital Cultures - 2018
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Moderator)
11.01.2018 → 12.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Rücksicht auf Darstellung. Modelle der Kritik nach Benjamin und Adorno
Heiko Stubenrauch (Organiser), Liza Mattutat (Organiser), Rebecca Ardner (Organiser), Jan Müller (Keynote speaker), Eva Geulen (Keynote speaker), Gerhard Schweppenhäuser (Keynote speaker) & Anselm Haverkamp (Keynote speaker)
25.01.2018 → 26.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Vortragsreihe »Fellows in Residence im Hause Nietzsche«: Materialismus heute - 2018
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker) & Martin Küpper (Speaker)
25.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Workshop zu gegenwärtigen Bedingungen von Schreib- und Denkarbeit
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
23.02.2018 → 25.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop zu gegenwärtigen Bedingungen von Schreib- und Denkarbeit der Zeitschrift Brand New Life in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunsthaus Glarus
Oona Lochner (Speaker) & Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
23.02.2018 → 25.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Curatorial/Knowledge Seminar - 2017
Katerina Genidogan (Organiser)
17.03.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Creativity and Social Organization MA Seminar - 2018
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2018 → 15.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
To Write is to Become: Feminist Art Writing by Jill Johnston and Arlene Raven: Session: Lesbian Constellations. Feminism’s queer art histories
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
07.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"The Common Sense": Maschinische Verschuldung bei Melanie Gilligan
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
26.04.2018 → 27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
From Christiane to Elisabeth. The 19th Century Genesis of the Intellectually Working Woman and the Epistemological Dependency on Structures of Desire in Hegel and Nietzsche
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Die ganz alltägliche Politizität des Rechts (Critical Legal Studies)
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
15.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Arlene Raven and the Feminist Studio Workshop
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
18.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
"Voicing Over Silences The Invention, Making and Unmaking of Third World: An Apparatus of Development"
Katerina Genidogan (Speaker)
31.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Terra Critica VI Core Group Meeting: Critique and/as Technology - 2018
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Participant)
07.06.2018 → 09.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Nadine Schiel (Organiser), Heiko Stubenrauch (Participant), Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Organiser) & Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
21.06.2018 → 23.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop "From Models to Monsters. Representing the World Economy and its Discontents"
Judith Sieber (Organiser), Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Levin Boaz (Organiser), Ying Sze Pek (Organiser) & Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Moderator)
03.07.2018 → 04.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Fluchtlinien – Irrlinien: Gilles Deleuze, Fernand Deligny, die Kunst und die Kartographie
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
16.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Kritiken der Natur: Eine Kontroverse zwischen Kritischer Theorie und Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Fabian Pittroff (Organiser)
23.07.2018 → 27.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Utopie-Konferenz 2018
Christoph Jamme (Organiser)
20.08.2018 → 22.08.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Sommerakademie ,,Modelle der Zugehörigkeit" des Internationalen Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften - 2018
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Speaker)
24.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Sixth Feminist Art History Conference
Isabel Mehl (Participant), Oona Lochner (Speaker) & Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
30.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Voices Within: Splitting Subjectivity in the Art Criticism of Jill Johnston and Lynne Tillman
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
30.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Concordia University
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Visiting researcher)
10.2018 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Bildtechniken der Präzision in der Entwicklung visueller Statistik bei William Playfair
Judith Sieber (Speaker)
03.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Knowing Colour - 2018/19
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2018 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Modernité et pouvoir des images : l’énonçable et le visible
Roberto Nigro (Speaker)
19.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
O.K. Werckmeister und die kritische Kunstwissenschaft
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
25.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Crisis – Unrest – Common Sense.
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
26.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Terra Critica Workshop: Cultures of Critique - 2018
Oona Lochner (Organiser), Kathrin Thiele (Organiser), Birgit Mara Kaiser (Organiser) & Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
08.11.2018 → 09.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
"Critique as Method" Position Paper
Lotte Warnsholdt (presenter)
09.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Latenzen zwischen Kunstwissenschaft und Weltanschauung
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
24.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Primitive accumulation and general intellect
Roberto Nigro (Speaker)
06.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research