http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
Organisational unit: Projectteam
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
- External workshops, courses, seminars
5th International LAVITS Symposium 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Participant)
03.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
6th Terra Ciritca: Critique and/as Technology
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Ästhetischer Genuss als Metapher populärer Kunstvermittlung - 2019
Elisabeth Heymer (Moderator)
21.03.2019 → 22.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
BA Seminar "Strategische Herausforderungen in Nonprofit-Organisationen" - 2005
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2004 → 15.07.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Between the Wage and the Commons
Holger Kuhn (Moderator)
05.06.2017 → 06.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
blind date: kunst macht widerstand 2014
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
01.11.2014 → 30.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
blind date: kunst macht widerstand 2: Die Grenzen der Kritik 2015
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
01.11.2015 → 30.11.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Buchvorstellung & Diskussion: Für einen Umweltschutz der 99%
Lukas Stolz (Moderator) & Milo Probst (Speaker)
18.11.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Cities and Creativity: Urban Ethnographies MA Seminar - 2018
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
01.04.2005 → 15.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Colloquium social critique - 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education