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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

  1. 2022
  2. Published

    Undisciplined: Peter Gorsen

    Schneider, T., 01.04.2022, Why Art Criticism? : A Reader. Söntgen, B. & Voss, J. (eds.). Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 165-166 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review

  3. Published

    Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala: Performing the Nation for Two Hundred Years

    Eduardo, S., 27.05.2022, Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State : Case Studies from a Global Context. Leeb, S. & Samuel, N. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 213-240 28 p. (Edition Museum; vol. 52).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review

  4. Published

    Cutting Across Lines: Lil Picard and the Reorienting Effects of Collage

    Lochner, O., 06.2022, Compressed Utterances : Collage in a Germanic Context after 1912. Collins, C. (ed.). Oxford, Bern, Berlin ua.: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 221-252 (German Visual Culture; vol. 12).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review

  5. Published

    Mach mal: Oder Produktion ist anderswo

    Hafner, H-J. & Schneider, T., 28.07.2022, Involvierte Autonomie. : Künstlerische Praxis zwischen Engagement und Eigenlogik. Eusterschulte, B. & Krüger, C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 127-150 24 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review

  6. Published

    Hommage an die unbekannten Betrachter*innen

    Schneider, T., 12.2022, Christoph John - Parallaxis. John, C. & Schneider, T. (eds.). Hannover: Palm Press Publishing, p. 30-31 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesTransfer

  7. Published

    Hommage to the unknown viewers

    Schneider, T., 12.2022, Christoph John - Parallaxis. John, C. & Schneider, T. (eds.). Hannover: Palm Press Publishing, p. 44-45 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesTransfer

  8. 2023
  9. Accepted/In press

    Administering Emancipation

    Stolz, L. & Scherrieble, L., 2023, (Accepted/In press) AdminiStudies: Formen und Medien der Verwaltung .

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    A Psychiatric Clinic, a Monastery, a City and a River: On the (Artistic) Legibility of Disappearance in Topography

    Eduardo Dávila, S. & Jordan, U., 2023, On Withdrawal: Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices. Eduardo Dávila, S., John, R. H., Jordan, U., Wulff, N., Sieber, J. & Schneider, T. (eds.). Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 209-236 28 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Die Contessa und der Comte: Virginia Oldoini und Olympe Aguado: Frühe Autorenfotografie und ihr Umgang mit Studio und Hintergrund

    Berents-Kemp, C. & Kemp, W., 2023, In: Fotogeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie. 43, 170, p. 5-12 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Is Code Law? Kritik in Zeiten algorithmischer Gouvernementalität

    Mattutat, L., Stubenrauch, H. & Warnsholdt, C. L., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 21-42 22 p. (Digital Cultures Series).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch