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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. Published

    Workerism

    Nigro, R., 2018, In: Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. 2/2018, p. 170-173 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Sobre Eyal Weizman, Arquitectura Forense. Violencia en el Umbral de la Detectabilidad, Nueva York: Zone Books, 2017

    Eduardo, S., 18.12.2018, In: Academia XXII. 9, 18, p. 191-196 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  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

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    Die Heilige Sippe und die Mediengeschichte des Triptychons: Familie und Bildrhetorik in Quentin Massys’ Annenaltar

    Kuhn, H., 2018, 1 ed. Emsdetten/Berlin: Edition Imorde. 158 p. (imorde.instants; vol. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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    Der Kaufmann und die Muttergottes: Zur Sichtbarmachung von Geld, Werten und Bewertungen

    Kuhn, H., 2017, Geld – Wert und Werte: Interdisziplinäre Annäherungen an ein Kulturphänomen. Schlitte, A., Denzler, A. & Huditz, F. (eds.). 1 ed. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 39-58 20 p.

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

  7. Published

    Im Vorraum: Lebenswelten kritischer Theorie um 1969

    Göttel, D. (ed.) & Wessely, C. (ed.), 2019, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos . 200 p. (Kaleidogramme; vol. 181)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Löwenbaby

    Wessely, C., 2019, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin. 68 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsTransfer

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    Ecologies of Making: On Tim Ingold´s General-Ecological Critique of Worldmaking

    Hörl, E., 2017, +ultra knowledge & gestaltung. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 45-53 9 p.

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

  10. Published

    The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital

    Hörl, E., 01.07.2018, In: Cultural Politics. 14, 2, p. 153-173 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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