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
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Erinnerung an den Ursprung
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser) & Laura Felicitas Sabel (Moderator)
01.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Forschungsfeld Hafen
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker) & Lisa Kosok (Speaker)
10.2019 → 09.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Forschungskolloquium unter der Leitung von Prof. Bénédicte Savoy
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Participant)
04.2021 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Isabel Mehl (Organiser)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique
Oona Lochner (Organiser), Isabel Mehl (Speaker) & Laura Kowalewski (Speaker)
01.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
From Where I Stand: Feminist Art/Writing. Subjectivities, Genealogies, and Critique
Oona Lochner (Organiser), Isabel Mehl (Speaker) & Laura Kowalewski (Speaker)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
From Where I Stand meets Pact of Silence – How to break it? Institutional critique & instituting otherwise from a feminist perspective
Arnika Ahldag (Speaker), Meenakshi Thirukode (Speaker), Rebecca Hanna John (Organiser), Oona Lochner (Organiser), Isabel Mehl (Organiser) & Nele Wulff (Organiser)
16.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Gewalt und Herrschaft: Theorie des Staatsstreiches zwischen Absolutismus und moderner Gouvernementalität
Roberto Nigro (Speaker)
15.03.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Grenzen
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
12.09.2017 → 15.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
HOW? Questions of methodology, intentionality, and situatedness in research as a (critical) praxis
Sebastián Eduardo (Organiser), Katerina Genidogan (Organiser), Judith Sieber (Organiser) & Amelie Buchinger (Organiser)
26.05.2021 → 28.05.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer