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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

    Unfreiwillig mit Schmitt: Die Rezeption Carl Schmitts in der Demokratietheorie Chantal Mouffes

    Mattutat, L. & Breuning, F., 2017, Radikale Demokratie: Zum Staatsverständnis von Chantal Mouffe und Ernesto Laclau. Hetzel, A. (ed.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 65-84 20 p. (Staatsverständnisse; vol. 104).

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

  2. 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

  3. Published

    Über Hinterbühnen und Fauxpas: Die Erinnerungskultur am Campus vor dem Hintergrund der „Leidenschaft der Ignoranz" sowie von Untermediatisierung in der Mediengesellschaft.

    Wuggenig, U., 2018, Die Rolle der Universität in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft im Wandel. Henkel, A., Hobuß, S., Jamme, C. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). 1. ed. Berlin: Pro BUSINESS Verlag, p. 175-182 8 p.

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

  4. Published

    Trauer um Professor Dr. Hermann Schweppenhäuser

    Wuggenig, U., 2017, Bild und Gedanke: Hermann Schweppenhäuser zum Gedenken. Schweppenhäuser, G. (ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 31-33 3 p.

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

  5. Published

    Transparenz und Geheimnis

    Beyes, T. & Pias, C., 2014, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 8, 2, p. 111-117 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Tomorrow the Manifold: Essays on Foucault, Anarchy, and the Singularization to Come

    Schürmann, R., Rauch, M. F. (ed.) & Schneider, N. (ed.), 2019, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 183 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  7. Published

    "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 contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  8. Published

    "To Arlene on Wings of Love": Shared Forms of Life, Art, and Writing

    Lochner, O., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 117-138 22 p.

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

  9. Published

    Tim und Struppi im „Land der Philosophen“

    Kuhn, H., 2019, 10 Minuten Philosophie. Drechsler, K. & Jamme, C. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 167-171 5 p.

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

  10. Published

    Thomas Gainsborough: The Modern Landscape

    Cassidy, C., 05.2018, In: Apollo. 187, 664, p. 106-107 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

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