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
Topics
Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik
- 2018
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
meson press (Publisher)
Andreas Bernard (Editor)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
Terra Critica Workshop: Cultures of Critique - 2018
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- 2017
Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
29.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › 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
Raus aus dem elitären Zirkel? Kunst, Kritik und Öffentlichkeit
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
27.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
„Positive“ Kritik
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 26.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
„Positive“ Kritik
Oona Lochner (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 25.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Positiv/Negativ-Dialog. (mit Rebecca Ardner, Oona Lochner, Isabel Mehl, Aliya Rayyan, Heiko Stubenrauch)
Elisabeth Heymer (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 26.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Post-X Politics
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Panel participant)
21.11.2017 → 23.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research