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
MA Seminar: The Politics of Organization - WiSe 2014/2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2014 → 01.02.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
my form is myself.
Isabel Mehl (Participant)
28.08.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
my form is myself.
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
28.08.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Online-Workshop "From Dream to Zine. Schreib- und Darstellungsweisen zwischen Wissenschaft und künstlerischer Praxis"
Rebecca Hanna John (Organiser) & Nele Wulff (Organiser)
28.05.2022 → 29.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies Writing Workshop
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
19.10.2017 → 20.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Politics of Deathdrive - Dis/Identification, Transgression, War
Till Hahn (Organiser), Katja Diefenbach (Organiser), Jenny Kellner (Organiser), Philipp Linstädter (Organiser) & Rebekka Wilkens (Organiser)
16.06.2022 → 17.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Radical Desires and Decolonial Critique
Julian Volz (Organiser) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Organiser)
13.06.2023 → 15.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
RecAf Spring School 2021
Dyoniz Kindata (Participant)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
RecAf Winter School 2021
Dyoniz Kindata (Participant)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research