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
8 Tage Fließgeschwindigkeit
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
12.09.2010 → 30.01.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Actualités - Honoré Daumier 2009
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
30.11.2008 → 22.02.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Aesthetics of Existence
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
26.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
After Progress
Lukas Stolz (Organiser), Martin Savransky (Curator) & Craig Lundy (Curator)
2021 → 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
A la recherche d'un nouveau paradigme esthétique
Roberto Nigro (Lecturer)
27.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Alienating Presents. Recovering Futures: On 'Future Idustries' and the Political Imagination
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Lukas Stolz (Organiser)
01.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
An Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing relational Aesthetics considering critical Ecologies.
Christoph Brunner (Speaker) & Ines Kleesattel (Speaker)
14.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Anders Schreiben
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
12.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Another End of the World is Possible: Beyond Climate Fatalism and Cruel Eco-Optimism
Lukas Stolz (Speaker)
24.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A Phenomenological Destruction of Ontology? Reiner Schürmann’s Reading of Marx and Heidegger
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker) & Nicolas Schneider (Speaker)
29.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer