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
From Christiane to Elisabeth. The 19th Century Genesis of the Intellectually Working Woman and the Epistemological Dependency on Structures of Desire in Hegel and Nietzsche
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Für feministische Kunstgeschichten - gegen kunsthistorischen Hegelianismus
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
04.11.2021 → 07.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Genre Developments in the Colonial Kiongozi Newspaper in German East Africa 1885-1918
Dyoniz Kindata (Speaker)
20.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Genuss gegen den guten Geschmack. Peter Gorsens Kunstkritik als enthemmter Kunstgenuss
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
22.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Gerhard Richters Fensterbilder
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
31.03.2012 → 12.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Guy Hocquenghem – Homosexual Desire
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
13.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Hegemoniekritische Analysen des Strafrechts
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
hyper-retinal in service of the mind
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
12.06.2015 → 13.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Imaginative Resilience: Beyond Climate Fatalism and Cruel Eco Optimism
Lukas Stolz (Speaker)
04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Inanimate’ bodies and the soil in the art of Isabel Ruiz and Edgar Calel
Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker)
18.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer