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
Knowledge Space(s) of Globalization – Musealizing Things, People and Spaces of Global Trade
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
30.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kommentar zu Elizabeth Loshs Vortrag zu »Survival of Tools/Suvirvaltools«, Transmediale: »Panic Room Sessions: Post-Digital Anxiety«
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Panel participant)
05.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
L’art comme non-savoir: Deaktivierung, Désœuvrement, Unlearning
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
15.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Latenzen zwischen Kunstwissenschaft und Weltanschauung
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
24.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Legibility in the German Deportation Regime: Identification and the Construct of the 'Duldung'
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
07.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Media Practices in “Red Algeria” and its Heritage in Contemporary Arts
Julian Volz (Speaker)
11.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Medien der Assistenz. Accessability und Digitale Kulturen
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Panel participant)
04.10.2017 → 07.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Medien des Zerfalls: Adorno – Benjamin – Bataille
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
13.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Neue Materialismen: Quentin Meillassoux’ Ästhetik
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
15.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Nietzsche's Legacy in Contemporary Political Thought
Roberto Nigro (Speaker)
02.11.2009 → 04.11.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research