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
- Conferences
Corona, Care and Commons. Von ‚Lohn für Hausarbeit‘ zu ‚Care Revolution‘
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
16.08.2023 → 17.08.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Critical History of Philosophy
Till Hahn (Organiser) & Charlotte Szasz (Organiser)
28.10.2021 → 29.10.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
CritiqueLab. Toolkits for Critique in Digital Cultures - 2018
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Moderator)
11.01.2018 → 12.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Critique Now
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Beate Söntgen (Organiser)
12.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
"Crowds and Party" Reading Workshop with Jody Dean - 2019
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Organiser), Henrike Kohpeiß (Organiser) & Heiko Stubenrauch (Organiser)
29.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Feministische Kritik des Strafrechts
Liza Mattutat (Organiser), Daria Bayer (Organiser), Boris Burghardt (Organiser) & Leonie Steinl (Organiser)
26.01.2023 → 27.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Laura Kowalewski (Organiser) & Isabel Mehl (Organiser)
01.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Laura Kowalewski (Organiser)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Hegel and Haiti: Critique of Enlightenment Philosophy beyond Apologia and Condemnation
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Susanne Leeb (Organiser)
22.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - GfM 2013
Mercedes Bunz (Organiser), Jan Müggenburg (Organiser), Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser) & Timon Beyes (Organiser)
04.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research