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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
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
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
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
The Aesthetic Turn - SoSe 2014
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2014 → 15.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
The Art of Criticism
Oona Lochner (Participant)
21.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
"The Common Sense": Maschinische Verschuldung bei Melanie Gilligan
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
26.04.2018 → 27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
The need of a new language: the experience of describing events in Belarus
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
08.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Theorie des Staatsstreichs
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
14.05.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research