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
Topics
Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik
- talk or presentation in privat or public events
Susan Taubes‘ Kritik an Jacobs Eschatologiegedanken
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
23.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Szenische Lesung zu Rechtsuptopien
Liza Mattutat (Speaker), Darya Bayer (Speaker) & Marcus Döller (Speaker)
03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
There Is No Time Like The Present
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Speaker)
28.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Tuntenstreit: Respectability vs. Gay Feminism
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
23.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Vom Ausgraben und Beerdigen der Fotografie. Memory Work und Archivkritik in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Akram Zaatari
Rebecca John (Speaker)
30.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Walk & Talk. Thinking about Neighborhoods and Communities
Rebecca John (Speaker), Zeljko Blace (Speaker), David Mathews (Speaker), Sarie Nijboer (Speaker) & Jared McCormick (Speaker)
28.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
- Conference Presentations
An Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing relational Aesthetics considering critical Ecologies.
Christoph Brunner (Speaker) & Ines Kleesattel (Speaker)
14.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Another End of the World is Possible: Beyond Climate Fatalism and Cruel Eco-Optimism
Lukas Stolz (Speaker)
24.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A Phenomenological Destruction of Ontology? Reiner Schürmann’s Reading of Marx and Heidegger
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker) & Nicolas Schneider (Speaker)
29.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Arlene Raven: Collaborative Writing as Feminist Strategy
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
09.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer