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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. Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  2. 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

  3. Published

    Weder Herren noch Knechte: Christoph Menke kritisiert die Form subjektiver Rechte und plädiert für ein Recht der Gegenrechte.

    Mattutat, L., 08.04.2016, 6 p. Hamburg

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  4. Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research › Peer-reviewed
  5. Published

    Eine Revolution des Begehrens? Guy Hocquenghem und der Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire

    Betzler, L. (ed.) & Branding, J-H. (ed.), 08.12.2021, Hamburg : Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearchpeer-review

  6. Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Transfer
  7. Published

    Die Gemeinschaft der Marginalisierten: Zum Verhältnis von westlichen Schwulen und arabischen Männern

    Volz, J., 08.12.2021, 16 p. Hamburg : Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsTransfer

  8. Published

    Jenseits von Identität und Arbeit. Impulse der Kampagne Lohn für Hausarbeit für eine politische Theorie und Praxis der Sorge

    Mattutat, L., 23.11.2021, Hannover : Institut für Politische Wissenschaft - Leibniz Universität Hannover.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsTransfer

  9. Published

    Juan E. De Castro. Bread and Beauty - The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

    Hahn, T., 14.03.2022, Canterbury : Marx and Philosophy Society.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsTransfer

  10. Published

    Paul Paolucci. Marx’s Experiments and Microscopes: Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions

    Hahn, T., 03.09.2021, Canterbury : Marx and Philosophy Society.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsTransfer

  11. Book › Research
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    Das homosexuelle Begehren

    Hocquenghem, G., Betzler, L. (ed.) & Branding, H. (ed.), 17.11.2019, 1. ed. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus. 197 p. (Nautilus Flugschrift)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  13. Published

    Die Steine von Venedig: Neu komponiert von Catharina Berents und Wolfgang Kemp

    Berents-Kemp, C. (ed.) & Kemp, W. K. (ed.), 2016, Wiesbaden: Corso Verlag. 296 p. (Corso; vol. 52)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  14. Published

    Emanzipation und Gewalt: Feministische Rechtskritik mit Karl Marx, Jacques Derrida und Gilles Deleuze

    Mattutat, L., 2022, Berlin: J.B. Metzler. 222 p. (Philosophie & Kritik. Neue Beiträge zur politischen Philosophie und Kritischen Theorie)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook