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
- Conference Presentations
Positive und negative Kritik bei Deleuze und Adorno
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Positiv/Negativ-Dialog. (mit Rebecca Ardner, Oona Lochner, Isabel Mehl, Aliya Rayyan, Heiko Stubenrauch)
Elisabeth Heymer (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 26.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Post-X Politics
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Panel participant)
21.11.2017 → 23.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Privacy by Design. Überwachung, Selbst, Kontrolle
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Keynote Speaker)
22.06.2017 → 23.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Regina José Galindo’s Delinking and Incarnations. Bodily practices of (de-)coloniality and sex-gender
Sebastian Eduardo (Speaker)
20.02.2020 → 21.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Response to Philip Hogh: Suffering, Pain and the Idea of Progress
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
05.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Suffrage spéculative
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Panel participant)
11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Susan Taubes’ Heideggerian reading of Marx’s ›telos‹
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
09.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tanzania’s Philosophies of War: From 1885 to the Present
Dyoniz Kindata (Speaker)
15.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The compatibility of knowing and believing in Quentin Meillassoux’s Divine« Inexistence
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
17.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research