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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

  1. Published

    »Kybernetik - passende Antwort: Cyborg«: Haraways Cyborg als Brückenschlag zwischen materialistischem und queerem Feminismus

    Mattutat, L., 2020, Weiterschreiben : Anschlüsse an Rebecca Ardners »Affirmation und Negation als Figuren der Kritik«. Hanft, M., Siebert, J. & L. W. (eds.). Hamburg: Katzenberg Verlag, p. 273-286 14 p. (K; vol. 15).

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

  2. Published

    La Esencia Barroca de la Razón de Estado: Excepción y Regla en el Golpe de Estado Clasico y Moderno

    Nigro, R., 2020, Filosofías del Barroco. González García, M. & Castignani, H. (eds.). Madrid: Tecnos Edicion, p. 551-567 17 p. 17

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

  3. Published

    Landnahme, analog und digital. Ursprüngliche Akkumulation in den Kontrollgesellschaften

    Nigro, R. & Stubenrauch, H., 2021, In: Behemoth : a Journal on Civilization. 14, 2, p. 61-74 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Leben mit Bildern, Leben in Bildern

    Söntgen, B. E., 2016, Sprezzatura: Geschichte und Geschichtserzählung zwischen Fakt und Fiktion. Burkart, L., von Müller, C. & von Müller, J. (eds.). Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, p. 71-76 6 p.

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

  5. Published

    „L’Internationale des Gouines et des Pédales“: Guy Hocquenghem und der Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire

    Betzler, L. & Branding, H., 08.12.2021, 17 p. Hamburg : Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  6. Published

    Liquidity - Networks - Deterritorialisation: Allan Sekula's Critique of Flow

    Kuhn, H., 2022, Fluidity : Materials in Motion. Finke, M. & Nakas, K. (eds.). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, p. 39-58 20 p.

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

  7. Published

    Logistische Grenzlandschaften: Das Regime mobiler Arbeit nach dem „Sommer der Migration“

    Altenried, M. (ed.), Bojadžijev, M. (ed.), Höfler, L. J. (ed.), Mezzadra, S. (ed.) & Wallis, M. (ed.), 2017, Münster: Unrast Verlag. 208 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Lonzi Lesen

    Lochner, O. & Mehl, I., 31.01.2021, Carla Lonzi. Selbstbewusstwerdung: Schriften zu Kunst und Feminismus. Zapperi, G. (ed.). b-books, p. 175 - 184 10 p.

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

  9. Published

    Looking at workers, working with workers: Struggles and Experiments in Collaboration in West German Arbeiterfilm in the 1970s

    Jordan, U., 2021, IDENTITY IS THE CRISIS. Fischer, J. H. (ed.). 4 ed. Other Forms, Vol. 2021. p. 38-57 20 p. (Countersignals; vol. 4).

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

  10. Published

    Love in Paramyth: On Rilke's Figuration of the Orpheus Myth

    Jamme, C., 20.06.2019, Rilke's SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES. Vandegrift Eldridge, H. & Fischer, L. (eds.). 1 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Vol. 1. p. 178-193 16 p. 6.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  11. Published

    Löwenbaby

    Wessely, C., 2019, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin. 68 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsTransfer

  12. 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

  13. Published

    Marina F. Bykova, Kenneth R. Westphal (Hrsg.) The Palgrave Hegel Handbook

    Szasz, C. N., 2021, In: Hegel-Studien. 55, p. 246-248 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  14. Published

    Memoria del movimiento (ensaio visual)

    Eduardo, S. & Calel, E., 27.01.2020, In: Revista Poiésis. 21, 35, p. 163-176 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  15. Published

    Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Peter Ludwigs Picasso-Bild

    Schneider, T., 2021, Der geteilte Picasso : Der Künstler und sein Bild in der BRD und der DDR. Friedrich, J. (ed.). Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, p. 211-214 4 p.

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

  16. Published

    Metamodelizing the Territory: On Teddy Cruz’s Diagrammatic Urbanism

    Brunner, C., 05.2019, Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics. Jellis, T., Gerlach, J. & Dewsbury, J-D. (eds.). London / New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 58-71 14 p. (Routledge studies in human geography).

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

  17. Published

    Milieu: Zirkulationen und Transformationen eines Begriffs

    Wessely, C. M. R. & Huber, F., 2017, Milieu: Umgebungen des Lebendigen in der Moderne. Huber, F. & Wessely, C. (eds.). 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 7–17 11 p.

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

  18. Published

    Milieu. Umgebungen des Lebendigen in der Moderne

    Huber, F. (ed.) & Wessely, C. M. R. (ed.), 2017, 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 184 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  19. Published

    Mining the Campus: Transforming Lüneburg University

    Kastelan, C. & Wuggenig, U., 2016, Front, Field, Line, Plane: Researching the Militant Image. Bitter, S., Weber, H., Loichinger, H. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Hamburg: adocs, p. 80–107 28 p.

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

  20. Published

    Mit Wut ans Bild: Beate Söntgen über Joan Mitchell im Museum Ludwig, Köln

    Söntgen, B. E., 03.2016, In: Texte zur Kunst. 26, 101, p. 171-174 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch