http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
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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
- Critical reviews › Research
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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 contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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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 contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Thomas Gainsborough: The Modern Landscape
Cassidy, C., 05.2018, In: Apollo. 187, 664, p. 106-107 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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"to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer. Artistic Practices around 1990"
Kuhn, H., 2017, In: Provence : An Eight Issue Magazine Dedicated to Hobbies. C, Spring/Summer 2017, p. 63-66 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
- Critical reviews › Transfer
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Die Liste der "Gottbegnadeten". Künstler des Nationalsozialismus in der Bundesrepublik: Deutsches Historisches Museum 27.08.-05.12.2021
Schneider, T., 2021, In: Kunstforum international. 278, p. 239-240 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Transfer
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Die Ordnung des Generischen: Zu sich wandelnden Funktionsformen von Amateurfotografie
Sieber, J., 2020, In: Rundbrief Fotografie. 27, 1, p. 39-44 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Transfer
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Theoretical Practices: Review of Natalia Romé, For Theory: Althusser and the Politics of Time
Hahn, T., 2022, In: Radical Philosophy. Spring 2022, RP 2.12, p. 90-93 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Transfer
- Journal articles › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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Ablehnungskultur: Die Figuren der Anderen
Bojadžijev, M., 2016, In: SPW. 217, p. 42-47 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Archaeologies of Contemporary Art: Negativity, Inoperativity, Désœuvrement
Rauch, M. F., 12.2020, In: Journal of Italian Philosophy. 3, p. 191–215 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Giving a voice to gaps and cracks. Archival critique in Jumana Manna's A Magical Substance Flows Into Me
John, R., 15.07.2020, In: Roots Routes. 33Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research