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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
50 Shades of Green – “Für einen Umweltschutz der 99 %” Review
23.11.21
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A Collaborative Glossary / From Where I Stand
Laura Kowalewski, Oona Lochner & Isabel Mehl
11.08.17
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African Multiple Identity in Diaspora – A Critical Reflection on Anti-Racism from the Perspective of Literature
21.05.22
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À la recherche des modes perdues - Malte Fabian Rauch über „Benjamin on Fashion“ von Philipp Ekardt
02.04.20
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Antiautoritärer Charakter: Zum 50. Todestag des Theoretikers der 68er-Bewegung
Julian Volz & Emanuel Kapfinger
01.02.20
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„Archive Fever“ in der zeitgenössischen Kunst: Jumana Manna – Akram Zaatari – Naeem Mohaiemen
16.11.18
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Beefsteaks raus! Über den Slogan "The Left can’t Meme", John Heartfield und die Situationistische Internationale (Teil 1)
01.04.23
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BIGOTHER: Timothy Shearer and Philipp Hoening On Their Current Exhibition
26.04.20
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Conversing with »Strange Agents«
Rebecca John & Ariel Bustamante
07.05.20
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Coronavirus. Il principio di prevenzione può essere un serpente che si morde la coda
10.05.20
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Das Warten hat sich gelohnt: "En attendant Omar Gatlato" im Magasin CNAC in Grenoble
31.07.23
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Das Ziel: Eine solidarische Gesellschaft mit Sorgebeziehungen im Zentrum
Jan-Hauke Branding & Gabriele Winker
01.03.21
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Der Kurator ist nicht allein. Beatrice von Bismarck erkundet das Ausstellen
05.03.21
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Der Tatort der Frankfurter Hauptschule: "Verschmutzung. Körperzustände. Faschismus" am Theater Oberhausen
Julian Volz, Marlena von Wedel & Daniela Duca
18.12.20
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Der Unterschied liegt in der Reflexion: Besprechung des Bandes "Politik von Medienbildern"
06.03.23
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Die Geister der Vergangenheit in Karlsruhe: Eine Ausstellung zeigt Nanni Balestrinis politische Experimente visueller Poesie
30.05.17
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Die Jetztzeit migrantischer Arbeitskämpfe: Julian Volz über Bouchra Khalili im MACBA, Barcelona
12.05.23
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Eigentum & Alltag Oranienstraße
Ulrike Jordan, Joerg Franzbecker & Anna Heilgemeir
14.12.19
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Gefangen in der Paarfabrik: Rezension zu „Für den Arsch“ von Christian Maurel
30.10.19
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Glamourös in die Moderne. Der Oceanliner Bremen
Catharina Berents-Kemp
01.11.06
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Heinz-Jürgen Voß (Hrsg.): Die Idee der Homosexualität musikalisieren
12.04.18
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Himmelsstürmer von Paris:Zum 200: Geburtstag Gustave Courbets, Präsident der Künstlervereinigung der Pariser Kommune
01.06.19
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