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
- Conference Presentations
Neue Materialismen: Quentin Meillassoux’ Ästhetik
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
15.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Nietzsche's Legacy in Contemporary Political Thought
Roberto Nigro (Speaker)
02.11.2009 → 04.11.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
O.K. Werckmeister und die kritische Kunstwissenschaft
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
25.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
One hundred years that shook the world
Till Hahn (Speaker)
05.10.2017 → 07.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
On Race & Ecocide: Thinking of New Forms of Environmentality and Eco-Colonialism
Katerina Genidogan (Speaker)
14.05.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Open-source Citizenship Research: Learning from Anti-corporate Campaigning Methodologies
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Othering und Performance-Kunst im postkolonialen Kontext
Sebastian Eduardo (Speaker)
26.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Pessimism and Optimism of the Future: the Future of the World(s) in the Strategies of Feminism and Digital Technologies
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
16.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
„Positive“ Kritik
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 25.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Positive und negative Kritik bei Deleuze und Adorno
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research