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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
Towards a Blackosmopolitical Proposal: Decolonization Perspectives through the Shift to Singular Knowledges
Katerina Genidogan (Speaker)
05.09.2019 → 07.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Towards a Criticism of Liberalism and Biopolitics: Foucault Rethinks Political Practices and Subjectivity
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
03.03.2011 → 04.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Towards a New Aesthetic Paradigm
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
25.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
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
Tragic Differing, Discordant Times: Reiner Schürmann’s Ruins
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
02.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Transparency and Temporality: Benjamin’s Caesura
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
14.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Transparency/Opacity
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Participant)
06.04.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › 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