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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

    Relating to water, spaces, and other agents. On the journey behind Juliane Tübke’s project Weathering

    John, R., 01.11.2020, Sirene – Goldrausch 2020. Dell, K. & Kruse, H. (eds.). Berlin: Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk Berlin e.V.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer

  2. Published

    Religion aus kultursoziologischer Perspektive

    Herbrik, R. & Haken, M., 2016, Handbuch Kultursoziologie: Band 2: Theorien - Methoden - Felder. Moebius, S., Nungesser, F. & Scherke, K. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, Vol. 2. 15 p.

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

  3. Published

    RE/viewing Jerusalem: Political Art Interventions in Occupied East Jerusalem

    Friedman, E. R. & Rayyan, A., 07.2018, Urban Art: Creating the Urban with Art: Proceedings of the International Conference at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 15-16 July, 2016. Blanché, U. & Hoppe, I. (eds.). Lisbon: Pedro Soares Neves, p. 92-100 9 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Rezension zu: Georges Bataille (Hrgs.): Hegel, der Mensch und die Geschichte, Hamburg 2018, Verlag Matthes & Seit.

    Rauch, M. F., 11.2020, In: Hegel-Studien. 53/54, p. 338-341 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  5. Published

    Scenes of Indifference: The Addressee of the Adventure

    Lagaay, A. & Rauch, M. F., 2020, In: Ethics and Politics. 22, 3, p. 87–108 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Schuldiger Realismus

    Volz, J., 2022, Art Germania Miami Beach: Jody Korbach, Nicolai Saur, Nicholas Warburg. Hannover: feinkunst e.V., p. 14-21 8 p.

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

  7. Accepted/In press

    Science-Fiction, spekulativer Feminismus und strafkritische Fabulation. Strafabolitionismus mit Ursula K. Le Guins "The Dispossessed".

    Mattutat, L., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Alternativen zum Strafrecht. Burchardt, C., Schmitt-Leonardy, C., Singelnstein, T. & Zabel, B. (eds.).

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

  8. Published

    Segment Introduction

    Nigro, R. & Hörl, E., 01.10.2021, Taking Sides: Theories, Practices, and Cultures of Participation in Dissent. Bippus, E., Ganzert, A. & Otto, I. (eds.). 1 ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, Vol. 28. p. 251-257 7 p. (Culture & theory; vol. 211).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  9. Published

    Sky's the Limit

    Wulff, N., 2017, In: Kultur & Gespenster. 18, p. 271-276 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Sobre Eyal Weizman, Arquitectura Forense. Violencia en el Umbral de la Detectabilidad, Nueva York: Zone Books, 2017

    Eduardo, S., 18.12.2018, In: Academia XXII. 9, 18, p. 191-196 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  11. Published

    Social Media - New Masses

    Baxmann, I. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 2016, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 348 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  12. Published

    Spaces with a temper: On atmospheres of teaching

    Michels, C. & Beyes, T., 2016, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education. Beyes, T., Steyaert, C. & Parker, M. (eds.). London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 312-329 18 p.

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

  13. Published

    Strangers to the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis in the Work of Georges Bataille and Julia Kristeva

    Fabian Rauch, M., 01.01.2023, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Tambling, J. (ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 309-321 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  14. Published

    Streifen und Glätten: Die Erfindung einer neuen Organisation

    Nigro, R., 2019, Maschinen, Fabriken, Industrien: Tausend Maschinen, Fabriken des Wissens, Industrien der Kreativität. Raunig, G. (ed.). Wien: Transversal Texts, p. 147-157 11 p.

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

  15. Accepted/In press

    Strukturell und opferzentriert. Feministische Begriffe der Gerechtigkeit.

    Mattutat, L., 01.2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Kritische Justiz. 2024, 1

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  16. Published

    'Summoning art to save the city': A Note: 'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice

    Beyes, T., 2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 15, 1, p. 207-220 13 p., 15.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    "Technisches Leben": Simondons Denken des Lebendigen und die allgemeine Ökologie

    Hörl, E. H., 08.2017, Black Box Leben. Muhle, M. & Voss, C. (eds.). Berlin: August Verlag, p. 239-266 27 p. (Schriften des Internationalen Kollegs für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie; vol. 28).

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

  18. Published

    Technoökologien / Technecologies / Tecnocologías

    Brunner, C. (ed.), España Naveira, K. (ed.), Minichbauer, R. (ed.), Mulvaney, K. (ed.) & Raunig, G. (ed.), 2018, Wien, Linz: eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies. (transversal; vol. 3/2018)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueTransfer

  19. Published

    The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital

    Hörl, E., 01.07.2018, In: Cultural Politics. 14, 2, p. 153-173 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    The Grime of Critique

    Warnsholdt, C. L., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 205-228 24 p.

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