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
- 2019
Arbeitsgruppe Kunst. 50 Jahre neue Gesellschaft
Ulrike Jordan (Curator), Christian Hanussek (Curator), Hannah Kruse (Curator), Vincent Schier (Curator), Olga von Schubert (Curator), Eylem Sengezer (Curator), Anna Voswinckel (Curator), Özlem Altin (Artist), Alice Creischer (Artist), Andreas Siekmann (Artist), Nihad Nino Pušija (Artist) & Aykan Safoğlu (Artist)
22.06.2019 → 04.08.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Édouard Glissant and Architecture
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
18.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › 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
Between Disorder and Control – Cybernetic Chronotopes in Crisis
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Speaker)
08.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
"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
Counter Cartography: Agamben – Debord – On Kawara
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
23.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Das Kapital filmen
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
02.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Normend, normierend und normalisierend – Die politische Ökonomie des Gefängnisses nach Foucault
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
02.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Weaving Fabrics
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
25.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Genuss gegen den guten Geschmack. Peter Gorsens Kunstkritik als enthemmter Kunstgenuss
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
22.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education