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
"The Common Sense": Maschinische Verschuldung bei Melanie Gilligan
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
26.04.2018 → 27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Art of Criticism
Oona Lochner (Participant)
21.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Aesthetic Turn - SoSe 2014
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2014 → 15.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Terra Critica Workshop: Cultures of Critique - 2018
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Terra Critica Workshop: Cultures of Critique - 2018
Oona Lochner (Organiser), Kathrin Thiele (Organiser), Birgit Mara Kaiser (Organiser) & Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
08.11.2018 → 09.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Terra Critica VI Core Group Meeting: Critique and/as Technology - 2018
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Participant)
07.06.2018 → 09.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Tera Kuno e.V. (External organisation)
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Office)
06.2022 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Technifizierte Theologie. Von der Muttergottes bis zu Wall-E
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
08.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Team Extra #1
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser) & Laura Felicitas Sabel (Moderator)
05.02.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
TASAWAR Studio 7
Julian Volz (Speaker)
05.03.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer