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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

  1. Conference Presentations
  2. Curating Contexts: Seth Siegelaub and the Topology of Conceptual Art

    Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)

    21.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  3. Cutting Across Lines: Lil Picard and the Reorienting Effects of Collage

    Oona Lochner (Speaker)

    03.12.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  4. Die Übertragung von Raum- auf Zeitdarstellung in der Entstehung visueller Statistik im 18. Jahrhundert

    Judith Sieber (Speaker)

    17.09.202119.09.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  5. Digital Dimension and Reconfiguration of Political Life in Belarusian Protests of 2020-2021

    Volha Davydzik (Speaker)

    07.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Distortions of the Present. Materialists Perspectives on Science Fiction.

    Liza Mattutat (Speaker)

    01.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Divinity and Materialism

    Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)

    11.03.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Eternal Irony – critique as the feminine?

    Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)

    07.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Fissures: Reiner Schürmann’s Genealogy of the Apperceptive Subject

    Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  10. Founding moral theory: a Meillassouxian perspective on Kant’s postulate problem

    Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)

    12.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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