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

  1. Conference Presentations
  2. Art and Atrocity: Archives of Remembrance

    Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)

    05.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  3. BAKJ-Kongress: „Sicherheitsgesellschaft und Perspektiven der Gegenwehr“

    Roberto Nigro (Speaker)

    30.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Bildparallelitäten. Modi der Bildbeschreibung bei Julius Meier-Graefe

    Stephanie Marchal (Speaker)

    18.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Bildtechniken der Präzision in der Entwicklung visueller Statistik bei William Playfair

    Judith Sieber (Speaker)

    03.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  6. Biometric Imaginaries: European Funding and the Heterogeneous Project of (Non)digital Civil Status Registration in Senegal

    Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)

    30.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Counter Cartography: Agamben – Debord – On Kawara

    Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)

    23.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  8. (Counter-)logistisches Wissen im Museum: Flows und Reibungen ausstellen

    Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)

    09.12.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Crisis, Unrest, Common Sense. Environmental Societies of Control in the Films of Melanie Gilligan

    Holger Kuhn (Oral presentation)

    25.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  10. Critique de la Circulation: Constant, Debord, and the Design of Environments

    Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)

    11.12.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

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