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
- Conferences
Searching for the Common Ground. The Role of Female Artists in India after 1990
Rebecca John (Organiser), Ragini Bhow (Participant) & Poonam Jain (Participant)
26.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Sixth Feminist Art History Conference
Isabel Mehl (Participant), Oona Lochner (Speaker) & Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
30.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘
Jeremias Herberg (presenter), Oliver Leistert (Coauthor), Esther Maria Meyer (Coauthor), Gregor Schmieg (Coauthor), Isabell Schrickel (Coauthor), Guido Caniglia (Coauthor), Manfred Laubichler (Coauthor), Erich Hörl (Coauthor), Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor) & Ulrike Vilsmaier (Coauthor)
23.01.2017 → 24.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Stipendiat*innentagung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2017
Oona Lochner (presenter)
24.02.2017 → 26.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Strafen und Neoliberalismus
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
03.11.2016 → 04.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Summerschool "Rhetorik(en) der Literaturwissenschaft" 2017
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
23.07.2017 → 30.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Wages for Housework Campaign. What Yesterday's Struggles Mean for Today
Liza Mattutat (Organiser), Ben Trott (Organiser) & Silvia Federici (Keynote speaker)
31.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Moderator)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Utopie-Konferenz 2018
Christoph Jamme (Organiser)
20.08.2018 → 22.08.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer