http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
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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
Topics
Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik
- Guest lectures
Gespenstische (Vorder-)gründe: Bildrhetoriken als Symptom medialer Effekte
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
28.09.2016 → 02.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Herausforderungen postkolonialer Provenienzforschung an der Schnittstelle von indigenen Gesellschaften und Museen anhand zweier Fallbeispiele
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Leonie Maurer (Speaker)
09.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
How to Organize Well? Participatory Platforms, New Modes of Value, Municipalist Movements.
Christoph Brunner (Speaker)
16.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Iconic Turn
Holger Kuhn (Speaker) & Franziska Brons (Speaker)
06.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Il colpo di stato come teoria e pratica di governo
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
20.05.2010 → 21.05.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Im Horizont verheddert. Krazy Kat
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
18.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kritische Theorie und die Studierendenbewegung um Hans-Jürgen Krahl
Julian Volz (Speaker), Emanuel Kapfinger (Speaker) & Meike Gerber (Speaker)
05.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
La critique de l’anthropologie philosophique comme enjeu majeur pour repenser le politique
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
22.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
La production de subjectivité comme enjeu du commun
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
24.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Looking at Workers, Working with Workers. 1970s Arbeiterfilm in West Germany
Ulrike Jordan (Speaker)
31.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education