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
- Conferences
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Utopie-Konferenz 2018
Christoph Jamme (Organiser)
20.08.2018 → 22.08.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Widerstandsfähigkeit vs. Widerstand. Semantiken der Verletzlichkeit
Thorsten Schneider (Organiser), Judith Sieber (Organiser) & Nele Wulff (Organiser)
27.01.2022 → 28.01.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Workshop "From Models to Monsters. Representing the World Economy and its Discontents"
Judith Sieber (Organiser), Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Levin Boaz (Organiser), Ying Sze Pek (Organiser) & Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Moderator)
03.07.2018 → 04.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Workshop with Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks
Holger Kuhn (Moderator) & Michael Hardt (Speaker)
09.05.2017 → 10.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- Editor of journals
31 : das Magazin des Instituts für Theorie (Journal)
Roberto Nigro (Editorial Board)
2012 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Kultur & Gespenster (Journal)
Nele Wulff (Editor), Philipp Goll (Editor), Elena Malzew (Editor), Gustav Mechlenburg (Editor), Britta Peters (Editor), Nora Sdun (Editor), Andrea Becker-Weimann (Editor-in-Chief) & Hans-Christian Dany (Editor-in-Chief)
2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- Editor of unfinished anthology/collection
meson press (Publisher)
Andreas Bernard (Editor)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research