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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
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A colonial lack of imagination: Climate futures between catastrophism and cruel eco-optimism
Stolz, L., 2024, In: Journal of Political Ecology. 31, 1, p. 759767 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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What could museums learn from the ancestral knowledge of the peoples from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta?
Felicitas Sabel, L. & Rawitscher, P., 2024, Transnational Island Museologies: Materials for Discussion. Brown, K., Brown, J. A. & González Rueda, A. S. (eds.). Paris: ICOM of the International Council of Museums, p. 43-47 5 p. (ICOFOM Study Series and Materials for Discussion).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Transfer › peer-review
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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.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Zukunftswechsel. überlegungen zu den Krisenbegriffen Reinhart Kosellecks und Giovanni Arrighis
Esch, F. L., 15.10.2023, In: Philosophy Kitchen. 2023, 19, p. 89-101 13 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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In the Aftermath of Violence. On Being Present and Calling Into Presence
Taylor, D., Eduardo Dávila, S. & Jordan, U., 2023, On Withdrawal: Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices. Eduardo Dávila, S., John, R. H., Jordan, U., Schneider, T., Sieber, J. & Wulff, N. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 159-176 18 p. ( Critical stances).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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A Psychiatric Clinic, a Monastery, a City and a River: On the (Artistic) Legibility of Disappearance in Topography
Eduardo Dávila, S. & Jordan, U., 2023, On Withdrawal: Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices. Eduardo Dávila, S., John, R. H., Jordan, U., Wulff, N., Sieber, J. & Schneider, T. (eds.). Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 209-236 28 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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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Strangers to the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis in the Work of Georges Bataille and Julia Kristeva
Fabian Rauch, M., 01.01.2023, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Tambling, J. (ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 309-321 13 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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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, 16Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Dada postkolonial: Die Wi(e)der-Aufführung als kuratorische Praxis
Felicitas Sabel, L., 2022, The Return of DADA / Die Wiederkehr von DADA / Le Retour de DADA: DADA Exhibitions / DADA-Ausstellungen / Expositions DADA. Mareuge, A. & Sandro, Z. (eds.). Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, Vol. 2. p. 63-78 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review