DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique"

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

Main research areas

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

  1. 2019
  2. Forschungsfeld Hafen

    Ruhkopf, M. (Speaker) & Kosok, L. (Speaker)

    10.201909.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  3. Worlding – nudges for posthuman play

    John, R. (Organiser), Thieroff, S.-C. (Organiser) & Müller, L. M. (Organiser)

    27.09.201928.09.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  4. Es geht um

    Schneider, T. (Curator)

    13.09.201925.10.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  5. Towards a Blackosmopolitical Proposal: Decolonization Perspectives through the Shift to Singular Knowledges

    Genidogan, K. (Speaker)

    05.09.201907.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Solitude Cinema

    John, R. (Curator), Badhwar, K. (Artist), Goel, S. (Artist), Heredia, S. (Artist), Manna, J. (Artist), Marziano, A. (Artist), Paul, P. (Artist) & Prabir, S. A. (Artist)

    01.08.201930.09.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  7. How to Organize Well? Participatory Platforms, New Modes of Value, Municipalist Movements.

    Brunner, C. (Speaker)

    16.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. There Is No Time Like The Present

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Speaker)

    28.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  9. Walk & Talk. Thinking about Neighborhoods and Communities

    John, R. (Speaker), Blace, Z. (Speaker), Mathews, D. (Speaker), Nijboer, S. (Speaker) & McCormick, J. (Speaker)

    28.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  10. Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser), Pias, C. (Organiser) & Pinkrah, N. Y. (Organiser)

    24.06.201928.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  11. Arbeitsgruppe Kunst. 50 Jahre neue Gesellschaft

    Jordan, U. (Curator), Hanussek, C. (Curator), Kruse, H. (Curator), Schier, V. (Curator), von Schubert, O. (Curator), Sengezer, E. (Curator), Voswinckel, A. (Curator), Altin, Ö. (Artist), Creischer, A. (Artist), Siekmann, A. (Artist), Pušija, N. N. (Artist) & Safoğlu, A. (Artist)

    22.06.201904.08.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  12. Édouard Glissant and Architecture

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Speaker)

    18.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  13. An Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing relational Aesthetics considering critical Ecologies.

    Brunner, C. (Speaker) & Kleesattel, I. (Speaker)

    14.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Between Disorder and Control – Cybernetic Chronotopes in Crisis

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Speaker)

    08.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  15. "Crowds and Party" Reading Workshop with Jody Dean - 2019

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Organiser), Kohpeiß, H. (Organiser) & Stubenrauch, H. (Organiser)

    29.05.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Counter Cartography: Agamben – Debord – On Kawara

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    23.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  17. Das Kapital filmen

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    02.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  18. Normend, normierend und normalisierend – Die politische Ökonomie des Gefängnisses nach Foucault

    Mattutat, L. (Speaker)

    02.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  19. Weaving Fabrics

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Speaker)

    25.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Genuss gegen den guten Geschmack. Peter Gorsens Kunstkritik als enthemmter Kunstgenuss

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    22.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  21. Ästhetischer Genuss als Metapher populärer Kunstvermittlung - 2019

    Heymer, E. (Moderator)

    21.03.201922.03.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  22. Susan Taubes‘ Kritik an Jacobs Eschatologiegedanken

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    23.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  23. Curating Contexts: Seth Siegelaub and the Topology of Conceptual Art

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    21.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  24. Hegel and Adorno: Philosophy and Sociology

    Szasz, C. (Speaker)

    20.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  25. Im Dissens? Nachbarschaft, Gentrifizierung und künstlerisches Engagement in der Oranienstrasse 2019

    Jordan, U. (Coauthor), Endewardt, S. (Coauthor), Heilgemeir, A. (Coauthor), Hennig, N. (Coauthor), Pelger, D. (Coauthor) & Franzbecker, J. (Coauthor)

    01.201912.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  26. Ästhetisch entfesselte Produktivkräfte: Technik, Selbstverhältnis und Emanzipation bei Marx, Adorno und Deleuze

    Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)

    2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  27. 2018
  28. Anders Schreiben

    Lochner, O. (Speaker)

    12.12.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  29. Konferenz ,,Karl Marx: Der Unzeitgemässe Zeitgenosse'' - 2018

    Szasz, C. (Organiser)

    09.12.201814.12.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  30. Primitive accumulation and general intellect

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    06.12.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  31. Latenzen zwischen Kunstwissenschaft und Weltanschauung

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    24.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  32. "Critique as Method" Position Paper

    Warnsholdt, L. (presenter)

    09.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  33. Terra Critica Workshop: Cultures of Critique - 2018

    Lochner, O. (Organiser), Thiele, K. (Organiser), Kaiser, B. M. (Organiser) & Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    08.11.201809.11.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  34. Crisis – Unrest – Common Sense.

    Kuhn, H. (Speaker)

    26.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  35. O.K. Werckmeister und die kritische Kunstwissenschaft

    Schneider, T. (Speaker)

    25.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Modernité et pouvoir des images : l’énonçable et le visible

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    19.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  37. Knowing Colour - 2018/19

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201801.02.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  38. Bildtechniken der Präzision in der Entwicklung visueller Statistik bei William Playfair

    Sieber, J. (Speaker)

    03.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  39. Concordia University

    Pinkrah, N. Y. (Visiting researcher)

    10.2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  40. Sixth Feminist Art History Conference

    Mehl, I. (Participant), Lochner, O. (Speaker) & Mehl, I. (Speaker)

    30.09.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  41. The Voices Within: Splitting Subjectivity in the Art Criticism of Jill Johnston and Lynne Tillman

    Lochner, O. (Speaker)

    30.09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  42. Utopie-Konferenz 2018

    Jamme, C. (Organiser)

    20.08.201822.08.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  43. Kritiken der Natur: Eine Kontroverse zwischen Kritischer Theorie und Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Pittroff, F. (Organiser)

    23.07.201827.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  44. Fluchtlinien – Irrlinien: Gilles Deleuze, Fernand Deligny, die Kunst und die Kartographie

    Rauch, M. F. (Speaker)

    16.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  45. Workshop "From Models to Monsters. Representing the World Economy and its Discontents"

    Sieber, J. (Organiser), Kuhn, H. (Organiser), Boaz, L. (Organiser), Pek, Y. S. (Organiser) & Warnsholdt, C. L. (Moderator)

    03.07.201804.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  46. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Kuhn, H. (Organiser), Schiel, N. (Organiser), Stubenrauch, H. (Participant), Warnsholdt, C. L. (Organiser) & Mattutat, L. (Organiser)

    21.06.201823.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. Terra Critica VI Core Group Meeting: Critique and/as Technology - 2018

    Warnsholdt, C. L. (Participant)

    07.06.201809.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  48. "Voicing Over Silences The Invention, Making and Unmaking of Third World: An Apparatus of Development"

    Genidogan, K. (Speaker)

    31.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  49. Arlene Raven and the Feminist Studio Workshop

    Lochner, O. (Speaker)

    18.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  50. Die ganz alltägliche Politizität des Rechts (Critical Legal Studies)

    Mattutat, L. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer