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
The need of a new language: the experience of describing events in Belarus
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
08.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The project “Jacaré”. Borys Malkin's Marketing Strategy of a Tairona Collection from Colombia
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Alexander Brust (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Social Apriori: Kant with Durkheim
Till Hahn (Speaker)
19.05.2016 → 20.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Voices Within: Splitting Subjectivity in the Art Criticism of Jill Johnston and Lynne Tillman
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
30.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Towards a Blackosmopolitical Proposal: Decolonization Perspectives through the Shift to Singular Knowledges
Katerina Genidogan (Speaker)
05.09.2019 → 07.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tragic Differing, Discordant Times: Reiner Schürmann’s Ruins
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
02.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Transparency and Temporality: Benjamin’s Caesura
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
14.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
"Voicing Over Silences The Invention, Making and Unmaking of Third World: An Apparatus of Development"
Katerina Genidogan (Speaker)
31.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Von der doppelten Mimesis zum double bind – Ian Hamilton Finlays visuelle Narrative
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
02.11.2017 → 03.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Weaving Fabrics
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
25.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research