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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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Scenes of Indifference: The Addressee of the Adventure
Lagaay, A. & Rauch, M. F., 2020, In: Ethics and Politics. 22, 3, p. 87–108 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Relating to water, spaces, and other agents. On the journey behind Juliane Tübke’s project Weathering
John, R., 01.11.2020, Sirene – Goldrausch 2020. Dell, K. & Kruse, H. (eds.). Berlin: Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk Berlin e.V.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Transfer
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Giving a voice to gaps and cracks. Archival critique in Jumana Manna's A Magical Substance Flows Into Me
John, R., 15.07.2020, In: Roots Routes. 33Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Feedback Systems: Artwriting as Critique?
Mehl, I., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 175-184 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Decorating Charleston Farm house: Bloomsbury's Experiments in Forms of Life, Work, and Art
Söntgen, B., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 139-176 36 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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"To Arlene on Wings of Love": Shared Forms of Life, Art, and Writing
Lochner, O., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 117-138 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Von belebenden Problemen und zerstörenden Rätseln
Stubenrauch, H., 2020, Weiterschreiben : Anschlüsse an Rebecca Ardners »Affirmation und Negation als Figuren der Kritik«. Hanft, M., Sieber, J. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Hamburg: Katzenberg Verlag, p. 133-150 18 p. (K; vol. 15).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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How to Do Materialistic Dialectics with Words? Adorno and the Resistance of Presentation
Stubenrauch, H., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 37 - 52 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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What's legit? Introduction
Mattutat, L., Nigro, R., Schiel, N. & Stubenrauch, H., 28.07.2020, What's legit? : Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights. Mattutat, L., Nigro, R., Schiel, N. & Stubenrauch, H. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-20 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/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