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
What could museums learn from the ancestral knowledge of the peoples from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta?
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker)
05.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Working in context - Garth Evans' Placement at the British Steel Corporation
Ulrike Jordan (Speaker)
22.08.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
Between Disorder and Control – Cybernetic Chronotopes in Crisis
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Speaker)
08.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Collapsing intersubjectivity and its rehabilitation in the contemporary sociopolitical crisis
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
21.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Das Strafrecht als Infrastruktur zur Organisation von Hegemonie. Ein „okzidentales“ Hegemonieprojekt in der Rechtsprechung zu Femiziden
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation)
23.06.2022 → 24.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Die feinen Unterschiede in den Werken von Bertrand Lavier
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
01.12.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Die Gegenwart des Antikolonialismus in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc und Bouchra Khalili
Julian Volz (Speaker)
26.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Doing Care - Telling Care
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation) & Judith Niehaus (Oral presentation)
24.02.2022 → 25.02.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Édouard Glissant and Architecture
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
18.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
24.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education