http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
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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
- 2023
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Julia Böcker (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Julia Böcker (Organiser) & Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The project “Jacaré”. Borys Malkin's Marketing Strategy of a Tairona Collection from Colombia
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Alexander Brust (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Herausforderungen postkolonialer Provenienzforschung an der Schnittstelle von indigenen Gesellschaften und Museen anhand zweier Fallbeispiele
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Leonie Maurer (Speaker)
09.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Museum als Ort des Wissens
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser)
23.11.2023 → 24.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Open-source Citizenship Research: Learning from Anti-corporate Campaigning Methodologies
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2024
Alienating Presents. Recovering Futures: On 'Future Idustries' and the Political Imagination
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Lukas Stolz (Organiser)
01.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Distortions of the Present. Materialists Perspectives on Science Fiction.
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Einführung in das Asylrecht: Schwerpunkt Klimakatastrophe
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
26.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Legibility in the German Deportation Regime: Identification and the Construct of the 'Duldung'
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
07.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Trapped in the Dream of the Other. An Essay on the Temporality of Love and Social Change
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Media Practices in “Red Algeria” and its Heritage in Contemporary Arts
Julian Volz (Speaker)
11.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Llano del Rio. A Case of (Revolutionary) Desire
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
17.04.2024 → 18.04.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Die Gegenwart des Antikolonialismus in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc und Bouchra Khalili
Julian Volz (Speaker)
26.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Artist Talk: Mohamad Abdouni im Gespräch mit Julian Volz
Julian Volz (Speaker) & Mohamad Abdouni (Speaker)
08.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer