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
- Conference Presentations
»Cultural Aspects of National Socialism«. Reconsidering an unfinished project of the International Institute of Social Research
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
21.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Curating Contexts: Seth Siegelaub and the Topology of Conceptual Art
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
21.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Cutting Across Lines: Lil Picard and the Reorienting Effects of Collage
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
03.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Die Übertragung von Raum- auf Zeitdarstellung in der Entstehung visueller Statistik im 18. Jahrhundert
Judith Sieber (Speaker)
17.09.2021 → 19.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Digital Dimension and Reconfiguration of Political Life in Belarusian Protests of 2020-2021
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Distortions of the Present. Materialists Perspectives on Science Fiction.
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Divinity and Materialism
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
11.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Eternal Irony – critique as the feminine?
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
07.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Fissures: Reiner Schürmann’s Genealogy of the Apperceptive Subject
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
02.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Founding moral theory: a Meillassouxian perspective on Kant’s postulate problem
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research