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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
- Conferences
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - GfM 2013
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser)
2012 → 2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz ,,Karl Marx: Der Unzeitgemässe Zeitgenosse'' - 2018
Charlotte Szasz (Organiser)
09.12.2018 → 14.12.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kritiken des Leidens
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017
Elisabeth Heymer (Organiser)
29.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (1st part)
Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Milan Stürmer (Organiser) & Mathias Denecke (Organiser)
10.12.2020 → 11.12.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (2nd part) 2021
Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Milan Stürmer (Organiser) & Mathias Denecke (Organiser)
22.04.2021 → 23.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Museum als Ort des Wissens
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser)
23.11.2023 → 24.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
„Positive“ Kritik
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 26.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Post-X Politics - – Internationaler Workshop zu den Herausforderungen des digitalen Wandels
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser)
21.11.2017 → 23.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Julia Böcker (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer