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
- 2017
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘
Jeremias Herberg (presenter), Oliver Leistert (Coauthor), Esther Maria Meyer (Coauthor), Gregor Schmieg (Coauthor), Isabell Schrickel (Coauthor), Guido Caniglia (Coauthor), Manfred Laubichler (Coauthor), Erich Hörl (Coauthor), Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor) & Ulrike Vilsmaier (Coauthor)
23.01.2017 → 24.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
The Value of Critique
Laura Kowalewski (Speaker)
19.01.2017 → 20.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017 → 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kritiken des Leidens
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kultur & Gespenster (Journal)
Nele Wulff (Editor), Philipp Goll (Editor), Elena Malzew (Editor), Gustav Mechlenburg (Editor), Britta Peters (Editor), Nora Sdun (Editor), Andrea Becker-Weimann (Editor-in-Chief) & Hans-Christian Dany (Editor-in-Chief)
2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Positive und negative Kritik bei Deleuze und Adorno
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Princeton University
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
- 2016
Die feinen Unterschiede in den Werken von Bertrand Lavier
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
01.12.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer