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
- 2017
my form is myself.
Isabel Mehl (Participant)
28.08.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
my form is myself.
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
28.08.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Summerschool "Rhetorik(en) der Literaturwissenschaft" 2017
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
23.07.2017 → 30.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2017 GEM Summer Institute
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Participant)
15.07.2017 → 30.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Dialogue between Art History and Regional Studies: How Can a Transcultural Perspective Question the Canon and Enrich the Discipline of Art History? - 2017
Rebecca John (Organiser), Eva Dr. Ehninger (Speaker), Monica Prof. Dr. Juneja (Speaker) & Jamila Adeli (Speaker)
04.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Searching for the Common Ground. The Role of Female Artists in India after 1990
Rebecca John (Organiser), Ragini Bhow (Participant) & Poonam Jain (Participant)
26.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Privacy by Design. Überwachung, Selbst, Kontrolle
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Keynote Speaker)
22.06.2017 → 23.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Common Ground #3. Where the Circles Intersect
Rebecca John (Curator), Yogesh Barve (Artist), Poonam Jain (Artist), Amol Patil (Artist), Ragini Bhow (Artist), Nihaal Faiza (Artist) & Tara Kelton (Artist)
20.06.2017 → 18.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Susan Taubes’ Heideggerian reading of Marx’s ›telos‹
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
09.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research