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
- trade fairs and exhibitions
Memory Flows Like the Tide at Dusk
Alia Rayyan (Curator)
03.09.2016 → 22.12.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
REviewing Jerusalem
Alia Rayyan (Curator)
01.05.2015 → 31.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Solitude Cinema
Rebecca John (Curator), Kush Badhwar (Artist), Shumona Goel (Artist), Shai Heredia (Artist), Jumana Manna (Artist), Anna Marziano (Artist), Pallavi Paul (Artist) & Savyasachi Anju Prabir (Artist)
01.08.2019 → 30.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Von seltenen Vöglen und Pflanzen
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
21.03.2012 → 21.10.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Wo das Land zu Ende ist
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
15.11.2009 → 31.01.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
- Conferences
10. Interdisziplinärer Niedersächsischer Doktorand_innentag Gender Studies der LAGEN 2020
Rebecca John (Moderator)
30.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
35th Swahili Colloquium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Alienating Presents. Recovering Futures: On 'Future Idustries' and the Political Imagination
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Lukas Stolz (Organiser)
01.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Nadine Schiel (Organiser), Heiko Stubenrauch (Participant), Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Organiser) & Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
21.06.2018 → 23.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research