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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
- Conference Presentations
Crisis, Unrest, Common Sense. Environmental Societies of Control in the Films of Melanie Gilligan
Holger Kuhn (Oral presentation)
25.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Critique de la Circulation: Constant, Debord, and the Design of Environments
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
11.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
»Cultural Aspects of National Socialism«. Reconsidering an unfinished project of the International Institute of Social Research
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
21.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Curating Contexts: Seth Siegelaub and the Topology of Conceptual Art
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
21.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Cutting Across Lines: Lil Picard and the Reorienting Effects of Collage
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
03.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Die Übertragung von Raum- auf Zeitdarstellung in der Entstehung visueller Statistik im 18. Jahrhundert
Judith Sieber (Speaker)
17.09.2021 → 19.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Digital Dimension and Reconfiguration of Political Life in Belarusian Protests of 2020-2021
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Distortions of the Present. Materialists Perspectives on Science Fiction.
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Divinity and Materialism
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
11.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Eternal Irony – critique as the feminine?
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
07.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Fissures: Reiner Schürmann’s Genealogy of the Apperceptive Subject
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
02.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Founding moral theory: a Meillassouxian perspective on Kant’s postulate problem
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
From Christiane to Elisabeth. The 19th Century Genesis of the Intellectually Working Woman and the Epistemological Dependency on Structures of Desire in Hegel and Nietzsche
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Für feministische Kunstgeschichten - gegen kunsthistorischen Hegelianismus
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
04.11.2021 → 07.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Genre Developments in the Colonial Kiongozi Newspaper in German East Africa 1885-1918
Dyoniz Kindata (Speaker)
20.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Genuss gegen den guten Geschmack. Peter Gorsens Kunstkritik als enthemmter Kunstgenuss
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
22.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Gerhard Richters Fensterbilder
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
31.03.2012 → 12.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Guy Hocquenghem – Homosexual Desire
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
13.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Hegemoniekritische Analysen des Strafrechts
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
hyper-retinal in service of the mind
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
12.06.2015 → 13.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Imaginative Resilience: Beyond Climate Fatalism and Cruel Eco Optimism
Lukas Stolz (Speaker)
04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Inanimate’ bodies and the soil in the art of Isabel Ruiz and Edgar Calel
Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker)
18.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Knowledge Space(s) of Globalization – Musealizing Things, People and Spaces of Global Trade
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
30.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kommentar zu Elizabeth Loshs Vortrag zu »Survival of Tools/Suvirvaltools«, Transmediale: »Panic Room Sessions: Post-Digital Anxiety«
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Panel participant)
05.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
L’art comme non-savoir: Deaktivierung, Désœuvrement, Unlearning
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
15.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Latenzen zwischen Kunstwissenschaft und Weltanschauung
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
24.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Legibility in the German Deportation Regime: Identification and the Construct of the 'Duldung'
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
07.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Media Practices in “Red Algeria” and its Heritage in Contemporary Arts
Julian Volz (Speaker)
11.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Medien der Assistenz. Accessability und Digitale Kulturen
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Panel participant)
04.10.2017 → 07.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Medien des Zerfalls: Adorno – Benjamin – Bataille
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
13.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Neue Materialismen: Quentin Meillassoux’ Ästhetik
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
15.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Nietzsche's Legacy in Contemporary Political Thought
Roberto Nigro (Speaker)
02.11.2009 → 04.11.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
O.K. Werckmeister und die kritische Kunstwissenschaft
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
25.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
One hundred years that shook the world
Till Hahn (Speaker)
05.10.2017 → 07.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
On Race & Ecocide: Thinking of New Forms of Environmentality and Eco-Colonialism
Katerina Genidogan (Speaker)
14.05.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Open-source Citizenship Research: Learning from Anti-corporate Campaigning Methodologies
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Othering und Performance-Kunst im postkolonialen Kontext
Sebastian Eduardo (Speaker)
26.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Pessimism and Optimism of the Future: the Future of the World(s) in the Strategies of Feminism and Digital Technologies
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
16.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
„Positive“ Kritik
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 25.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
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
The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research