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
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Athens School of Fine Arts (External organisation)
Lukas Stolz (Member)
2021 → 2022Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2004 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique" (Organisational unit)
Erich Heinrich Hörl (Speaker)
10.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Tera Kuno e.V. (External organisation)
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Office)
06.2022 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Verein engagée. politisch-philosophische Einmischungen (External organisation)
Lukas Stolz (Member)
2020 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
- Academic networks or partnerships
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e. V. (External organisation)
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Laura Felicitas Sabel (Member)
06.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Graduiertenkolleg »Lose Verbindungen« (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Raumerweiterungshalle Leipzig (External organisation)
Ulrike Jordan (Member)
2004 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2001 → 2006Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
- Visiting an external academic institution
Bauhaus University of Weimar
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
10.2008 → 04.2009Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer