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
- Guest lectures
Démocratie absolue. Actualité et enjeux d'un concept classique
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
29.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Der gemarterte Körper. Der Schmerz des Selbst und der Anderen von Kafka bis Pasolini
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
23.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Der Hunger des Auges. Visuelle Rhetorik bei Erasmus
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
12.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Der Kaufmann und die Muttergottes.: Geld und Werte in der Antwerpen Malerei des 16. Jahrhunderts
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
29.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die deutende Gewalt. Eine dekonstruktive Kritik der Rechtsprechung (Jacques Derrida/Walter Benjamin)
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation)
05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Die ganz alltägliche Politizität des Rechts (Critical Legal Studies)
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
15.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die leibhaftige Münze und ihr Papierschatten
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
17.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Rückkehr von Tim und Struppi ins Land der Philosophen
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
10.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Erfindung des Gemeinsamen: zur Kritik des Privaten und des Öffentlichen
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
02.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Existentielle Territorien, Ritornell, Dispositive. Was heißt Wohnen?
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
23.09.2012 → 26.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer