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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
- Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Milieu. Umgebungen des Lebendigen in der Moderne
Huber, F. (ed.) & Wessely, C. M. R. (ed.), 2017, 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 184 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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On Withdrawal: Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices
Eduardo Dávila, S. (ed.), John, R. H. (ed.), Jordan, U. (ed.), Wulff, N. (ed.), Sieber, J. (ed.) & Schneider, T. (ed.), 2023, Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 384 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Performing the Digital: Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures
Leeker, M. (ed.), Schipper, I. (ed.) & Beyes, T. (ed.), 01.03.2017, Bielefeld : transcript Verlag. 300 p. (Digitale Gesellschaft; vol. 11)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Social Media - New Masses
Baxmann, I. (ed.), Beyes, T. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 2016, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 348 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Weiterschreiben. Anschlüsse an Rebecca Ardners »Affirmation und Negation als Figuren der Kritik«
Hanft, M. (ed.), Sieber, J. (ed.) & Warnsholdt, L. (ed.), 2020, Hamburg: Katzenberg Verlag. 300 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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What's legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights
Mattutat, L. (ed.), Nigro, R. (ed.), Schiel, N. (ed.) & Stubenrauch, H. (ed.), 28.07.2020, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 304 p. (Critical Stances)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research