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
Die ganz alltägliche Politizität des Rechts (Critical Legal Studies)
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
15.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
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
Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2001 → 2006Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Die Kunst des Spiegel, 2009
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
05.07.2009 → 18.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Die leibhaftige Münze und ihr Papierschatten
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
17.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Rückkehr von Tim und Struppi ins Land der Philosophen
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
10.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Übertragung von Raum- auf Zeitdarstellung in der Entstehung visueller Statistik im 18. Jahrhundert
Judith Sieber (Speaker)
17.09.2021 → 19.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
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
Digital Dimension and Reconfiguration of Political Life in Belarusian Protests of 2020-2021
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Distortions of the Present. Materialists Perspectives on Science Fiction.
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research