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

Main research areas

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

  1. Deutsch-Französisches Doktorandenkolleg zur Rolle ethnologischer Museen „Den 'Anderen' repräsentieren: Museen, Universitäten, Ethnologie“

    Felicitas Sabel, L. (Participant)

    01.202312.2026

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

  2. DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique" (Organisational unit)

    Hörl, E. H. (Speaker)

    10.2016 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  3. Dialogue between Art History and Regional Studies: How Can a Transcultural Perspective Question the Canon and Enrich the Discipline of Art History? - 2017

    John, R. (Organiser), Dr. Ehninger, E. (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Juneja, M. (Speaker) & Adeli, J. (Speaker)

    04.07.2017

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

  4. Die deutende Gewalt. Eine dekonstruktive Kritik der Rechtsprechung (Jacques Derrida/Walter Benjamin)

    Mattutat, L. (Oral presentation)

    05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. Die feinen Unterschiede in den Werken von Bertrand Lavier

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    01.12.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  6. Die ganz alltägliche Politizität des Rechts (Critical Legal Studies)

    Mattutat, L. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  7. Die Gegenwart des Antikolonialismus in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc und Bouchra Khalili

    Volz, J. (Speaker)

    26.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  8. Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)

    Pias, C. (Member)

    20012006

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  9. Die Kunst des Spiegel, 2009

    Berents-Kemp, C. (Curator)

    05.07.200918.10.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  10. Die leibhaftige Münze und ihr Papierschatten

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    17.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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