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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. Published

    Modes of Exhaustion

    Bordeleau, É. (ed.), Brunner, C. (ed.), Kuipers, H. (ed.), Nguyen, N. C. (ed.) & Pape, T. (ed.), 10.2017, Open Humanities Press. 235 p. (Inflexions - A Journal for Research-Creation; no. 10)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  2. Published

    Municipalismos monstruo | Monster Municipalisms | Monster-Munizipalismen

    Brunner, C. (ed.), Kubaczek, N. (ed.), Mulvaney, K. (ed.) & Raunig, G. (ed.), 09.2016, Wien: eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies. (transversal; no. 9)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  3. Published

    Neoliberalismus im Vollzug: Gibt es einen "Prison-Industrial-Complex" in Deutschland?

    Dübgen, F. & Mattutat, L., 2017, In: WestEnd. 2, p. 77-98 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Nietzsche und der Mythos

    Jamme, C., 2017, Bild und Gedanke : Hermann Schweppenhäuser zum Gedenken. Schweppenhäuser, G. (ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, p. 239-243 5 p.

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

  5. Published

    Nous sommes tous des prisonniers! Foucaults Genealogie des Gefängnisses.

    Mattutat, L., 2018, Strafe und Gefängnis: Theorie, Kritik und Alternativen - Eine Einführung. Malzahn, R. (ed.). 1 ed. Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag, p. 80-93 14 p.

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

  6. Published

    Offener Brief zur Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe an die Justizminister*innen

    Studentische Arbeitsgruppe "Strafrechtskritik als Herrschaftskritik", 2017, In: Kritische Justiz. 50, 2, p. 223-225 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  7. Published

    Ohne Lehrsatz und Methode: Kritische Theorie als geistige Praxis

    Mattutat, L., 2023, In: Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie. 29, 56/57, p. 99-113 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  8. Published

    Ökologien des Machens: Zur allgemein-ökologischen Kritik der Welterzeugung bei Tim Ingold

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). 1 ed. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 49-58 10 p.

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

  9. Published

    On Repetition and Endurance

    Sieber, J., 2019, Eva Funk: HELP ME TO BE A SPOON. Berlin: Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk Berlin e.V., 16 p. (Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer

  10. Published

    On Withdrawal: Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (ed.), John, R. H. (ed.), Jordan, U. (ed.), Wulff, N. (ed.), Sieber, J. (ed.) & Schneider, T. (ed.), 2023, Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 384 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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