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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

    Eine Frage von Genauigkeit? Die gesellschaftspolitische Ausrichtung visueller Statistik bei William Playfair

    Sieber, J., 08.12.2021, Imagination und Genauigkeit: Verschränkungen in Künsten und Wissenschaften. Dätwyler, L., Klarskov, A. & Knierzinger, L. (eds.). Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, p. 25-42 18 p.

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

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    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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Published

    Femizide. Versuch einer hegemonietheoretischen Deutung der Rechtsprechung

    Mattutat, L., 2022, In: Kritische Justiz. 55, 4, p. 453-466 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  6. Published

    Freie Rede

    Schneider, T., 2022, In: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur. 3, 2, p. 511-527 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  7. 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

  8. Published

    Der Mucha - Ein Anfangsverdacht: Kunstsammlung NRW, K20 + K21 03.09.2022 – 22.01.2023

    Schneider, T., 2022, In: Kunstforum international. 2022, 285, p. 253-254 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  9. Published

    Queering

    John, R. H., 01.04.2022, Why Art Criticism? : A Reader. Söntgen, B. & Voss, J. (eds.). Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 415-427 13 p. (Zeitgenössische Kunst).

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

  10. Published

    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 contributionsCritical reviewsTransfer

  11. 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

  12. 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.

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Published

    Worauf warten?

    Schneider, T., 10.12.2021, Aus alter Wurzel neue Kraft. Berresheims, T. (ed.). Aachen: Studios New Amerika, p. 213-217 5 p.

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

  17. Published

    Die Wait Watchers

    Schneider, T., 10.12.2021, Aus alter Wurzel neue Kraft. Berresheims, T. (ed.). Aachen: Studios New Amerika, p. 27-42 16 p.

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

  18. Published

    Hommage to the unknown viewers

    Schneider, T., 12.2022, Christoph John - Parallaxis. John, C. & Schneider, T. (eds.). Hannover: Palm Press Publishing, p. 44-45 2 p.

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

  19. Published

    Hommage an die unbekannten Betrachter*innen

    Schneider, T., 12.2022, Christoph John - Parallaxis. John, C. & Schneider, T. (eds.). Hannover: Palm Press Publishing, p. 30-31 2 p.

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

  20. Published

    Undisciplined: Peter Gorsen

    Schneider, T., 01.04.2022, Why Art Criticism? : A Reader. Söntgen, B. & Voss, J. (eds.). Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 165-166 2 p.

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