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
- Conference Presentations
Art and Atrocity: Archives of Remembrance
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
05.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Ästhetisch entfesselte Produktivkräfte: Technik, Selbstverhältnis und Emanzipation bei Marx, Adorno und Deleuze
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
BAKJ-Kongress: „Sicherheitsgesellschaft und Perspektiven der Gegenwehr“
Roberto Nigro (Speaker)
30.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bildparallelitäten. Modi der Bildbeschreibung bei Julius Meier-Graefe
Stephanie Marchal (Speaker)
18.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bildtechniken der Präzision in der Entwicklung visueller Statistik bei William Playfair
Judith Sieber (Speaker)
03.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Biometric Imaginaries: European Funding and the Heterogeneous Project of (Non)digital Civil Status Registration in Senegal
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
30.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Counter Cartography: Agamben – Debord – On Kawara
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
23.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
(Counter-)logistisches Wissen im Museum: Flows und Reibungen ausstellen
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
09.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Crisis, Unrest, Common Sense. Environmental Societies of Control in the Films of Melanie Gilligan
Holger Kuhn (Oral presentation)
25.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Critique de la Circulation: Constant, Debord, and the Design of Environments
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
11.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer