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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

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  1. Conference Presentations
  2. The need of a new language: the experience of describing events in Belarus

    Volha Davydzik (Speaker)

    08.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. The project “Jacaré”. Borys Malkin's Marketing Strategy of a Tairona Collection from Colombia

    Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Alexander Brust (Speaker)

    02.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. The Social Apriori: Kant with Durkheim

    Till Hahn (Speaker)

    19.05.201620.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. The Voices Within: Splitting Subjectivity in the Art Criticism of Jill Johnston and Lynne Tillman

    Oona Lochner (Speaker)

    30.09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  6. Towards a Blackosmopolitical Proposal: Decolonization Perspectives through the Shift to Singular Knowledges

    Katerina Genidogan (Speaker)

    05.09.201907.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Tragic Differing, Discordant Times: Reiner Schürmann’s Ruins

    Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)

    02.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  8. Transparency and Temporality: Benjamin’s Caesura

    Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)

    14.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  9. "Voicing Over Silences The Invention, Making and Unmaking of Third World: An Apparatus of Development"

    Katerina Genidogan (Speaker)

    31.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  10. Von der doppelten Mimesis zum double bind – Ian Hamilton Finlays visuelle Narrative

    Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)

    02.11.201703.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  11. Weaving Fabrics

    Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)

    25.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch