http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
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
Topics
Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Images in Conflict
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
17.05.2017 → 18.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Infrastrukturelle Gewalt und (Counter-)Logistics
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
10.2021 → 03.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Internationale Tagung zu Julius Meier-Graefe. Grenzgänger der Künste - 2015
Holger Kuhn (Moderator)
12.03.2015 → 14.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Internes Anti-Rassismus-Training
Rebecca Hanna John (Organiser) & Judith Sieber (Organiser)
18.01.2022 → 20.01.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Knowing Colour - 2018/19
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2018 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Kritiken der Natur: Eine Kontroverse zwischen Kritischer Theorie und Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Fabian Pittroff (Organiser)
23.07.2018 → 27.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
29.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › 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
Marivi Véliz. Absentees: Some Effects of Violence in Latin American Performance Art in the 21st Century
Ulrike Jordan (Organiser) & Sebastián Eduardo (Organiser)
18.03.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Marx from the Margins: Discussing Marxism from a Post-Colonial Perspective 2019
Rebecca John (Organiser), Nikita Dhawan (Speaker) & María do Mar Castro Varela (Speaker)
15.11.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer