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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. Journal articles › Research › Peer-reviewed
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    An-arche and Indifference: Between Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, and Reiner Schürmann

    Rauch, M. F., 2021, In: Philosophy Today. 65, 3, p. 619-636 18 p.

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    Another new museum? Imagining the space of art in the creative city

    Beyes, T., Steyaert, C. & Michels, C., 2014, In: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. 18, 3, p. 9-28 21 p.

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    Colour and Organization Studies

    Beyes, T., 01.10.2017, In: Organization Studies. 38, 10, p. 1467 - 1482 16 p.

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    Cross-dressing women in the cinema of the Russian Empire, 1910-1917

    Korotkova, S., 25.11.2023, In: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. 2013, 16

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    Das Problem der Unbestimmtheit des Rechts: Konsequenzen für die theoretische und die praktische Rechtskritik

    Mattutat, L., 2016, In: Kritische Justiz. 49, 4, p. 496–508 13 p.

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    Desynchronization of the Public and the Private: The Transformation of Biocapitalism in the Coronavirus Context

    Shevchenko, S. Y., Davydzik, V., Ilyushenko, N. S. & Petrov, K. A., 2020, In: Chelovek. 31, 6, p. 50-67 18 p.

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    Die Contessa und der Comte: Virginia Oldoini und Olympe Aguado: Frühe Autorenfotografie und ihr Umgang mit Studio und Hintergrund

    Berents-Kemp, C. & Kemp, W., 2023, In: Fotogeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie. 43, 170, p. 5-12 8 p.

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    Fictions of the Possible: Art, the City and Public Entrepreneurship

    Beyes, T., 27.10.2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 24, 4, p. 445-449 5 p.

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    General Intellect

    Nigro, R., 2018, In: Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. 2/2018, p. 67-70 4 p.

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    Is there a post-racism? On David Theo Goldberg's conjunctural analysis of the post-racial

    Bojadžijev, M., 20.10.2016, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39, 13, p. 2235-2240 6 p.

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