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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

    Nous sommes tous des prisonniers! Foucaults Genealogie des Gefängnisses.

    Mattutat, L., 2018, Strafe und Gefängnis: Theorie, Kritik und Alternativen - Eine Einführung. Malzahn, R. (ed.). 1 ed. Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag, p. 80-93 14 p.

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

  2. Published

    Idioms: The Minor ‘A’s of Art

    Leeb, S., 12.2017, In: Texte zur Kunst. 27, 108, p. 32-56 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  3. Published

    Vom Macht-Wissen-Dispositiv zum Wahrheitsregime

    Nigro, R., 2017, Vierzig Jahre "Überwachen und Strafen": Zur Aktualität der Foucault'schen Machtanalyse. . Nigro, R. & Rölli, M. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 175-196 22 p.

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

  4. Published

    Sky's the Limit

    Wulff, N., 2017, In: Kultur & Gespenster. 18, p. 271-276 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Das Wissen des Profils: Zur kriminalistischen und psychiatrischen Herkunft digitaler Selbstbeschreibung

    Bernard, A., 11.2018, Das dokumentierte Ich: Wissen in Verhandlung. Hämmerling, C. & Zetti, D. (eds.). Zürich: Chronos, p. 113-126 14 p. (Interferenzen. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte der Technik; vol. 26).

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

  6. Published

    Logistische Grenzlandschaften: Das Regime mobiler Arbeit nach dem „Sommer der Migration“

    Altenried, M. (ed.), Bojadžijev, M. (ed.), Höfler, L. J. (ed.), Mezzadra, S. (ed.) & Wallis, M. (ed.), 2017, Münster: Unrast Verlag. 208 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  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

    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

  9. Published

    Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter des general intellect

    Nigro, R., 06.2017, In: Paragrana. 26, 1, p. 75 - 85 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

  10. Published

    Neoliberalismus im Vollzug: Gibt es einen "Prison-Industrial-Complex" in Deutschland?

    Dübgen, F. & Mattutat, L., 2017, In: WestEnd. 2, p. 77-98 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch