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
- 2023
The Tuntenstreit: Respectability vs. Gay Feminism
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
23.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Collapsing intersubjectivity and its rehabilitation in the contemporary sociopolitical crisis
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
21.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Critique Now
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Beate Söntgen (Organiser)
12.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Deutsch-Französisches Doktorandenkolleg zur Rolle ethnologischer Museen „Den 'Anderen' repräsentieren: Museen, Universitäten, Ethnologie“
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Participant)
01.2023 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Hegemoniekritische Analysen des Strafrechts
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
35th Swahili Colloquium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2022
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
16.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Guy Hocquenghem - historische Sexualwissenschaft und queerer Marxismus
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
15.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
(Counter-)logistisches Wissen im Museum: Flows und Reibungen ausstellen
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
09.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Another End of the World is Possible: Beyond Climate Fatalism and Cruel Eco-Optimism
Lukas Stolz (Speaker)
24.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research