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
- 2021
HOW? Questions of methodology, intentionality, and situatedness in research as a (critical) praxis
Sebastián Eduardo (Organiser), Katerina Genidogan (Organiser), Judith Sieber (Organiser) & Amelie Buchinger (Organiser)
26.05.2021 → 28.05.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Arlene Raven and the Feminist Studio Workshop
Oona Lochner (Oral presentation)
18.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
FULL ON ... MASK HYSTERIA: NEW AND OLD NORMALITIES
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
01.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Recht und Moral
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
26.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Strafzwecktheorien und ihre Kritik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
26.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (2nd part) 2021
Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Milan Stürmer (Organiser) & Mathias Denecke (Organiser)
22.04.2021 → 23.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
From Where I Stand meets Pact of Silence – How to break it? Institutional critique & instituting otherwise from a feminist perspective
Arnika Ahldag (Speaker), Meenakshi Thirukode (Speaker), Rebecca Hanna John (Organiser), Oona Lochner (Organiser), Isabel Mehl (Organiser) & Nele Wulff (Organiser)
16.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Forschungskolloquium unter der Leitung von Prof. Bénédicte Savoy
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Participant)
04.2021 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Kritik als Arbeit in den Lücken
Judith Sieber (Oral presentation) & Charlotte Szasz (Oral presentation)
26.02.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Schwule Politik der Zerstreuung
Jan-Hauke Branding (Panel participant), Lukas Betzler (Panel participant) & Antoine Idier (Panel participant)
15.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer