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
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
»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
Images in Conflict
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
17.05.2017 → 18.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Founding moral theory: a Meillassouxian perspective on Kant’s postulate problem
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
VIDEO ACTIVISM CONFERENCE BERLIN 2017
Laura Kowalewski (Participant)
12.05.2017 → 13.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop with Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks
Holger Kuhn (Moderator) & Michael Hardt (Speaker)
09.05.2017 → 10.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Was sind digitale Kulturen? MA Seminar
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2017 → 15.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Divinity and Materialism
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
11.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stipendiat*innentagung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2017
Oona Lochner (presenter)
24.02.2017 → 26.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Moderator)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research