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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
- Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Peer-reviewed
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Exceeding Work: Performing Conceptual Art
Vogman, E. & Rauch, M. F., 06.2019, Mundo diffuso: Jean-Christophe Norman. Joly, P. (ed.). Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, p. 175–182 8 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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General Ecology
Hörl, E. H., 2018, Posthuman Glossary. Braidotti, R. & Hlavajova, M. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 172-175 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Herbert Marcuse and the West German Student Movement
Volz, J., Gerber, M. & Kapfinger, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) The Marcusean Mind. Altheman C. Santos, E., Fast, J., Mayberry, N. K. & Simpson, S. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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"Ich leide, also bin ich": Selbstverfügter Schmerz als äußerstes Mittel politischer Kunst
Söntgen, B. E., 2016, Ulay: Life-Sized. Ulrich, M. (ed.). Leipzig: Spector Books, p. 111-117 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Innen und Außen: Interieurvorhänge in der Malerei um 1900
Söntgen, B. E., 2016, Hinter dem Vorhang: Verhüllung und Enthüllung seit der Renaissance – von Tizian bis Christo. Blümle, C. & Wismer, B. (eds.). München: Hirmer, p. 226-236 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Introduction to General Ecology: The Ecologization of Thinking
Hörl, E. H. & Schott, N. F. (Translator), 05.2017, General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm. Hörl, E. & Burton, J. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1 – 75 75 p. (Theory).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Jungfräuliche Membranen: Vom Pergament zum iPad
Kuhn, H., 2021, Hautlichkeit : Oberflächen in Wissenschaft und Design. Schnödl, G. & Windgätter, C. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 161-180 20 p. (DesignWissen; vol. 3).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Kritik, partiale Perspektive und kapitalistische Totalität: Fredric Jameson - Donna Haraway
Kuhn, 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. 235-250 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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La Esencia Barroca de la Razón de Estado: Excepción y Regla en el Golpe de Estado Clasico y Moderno
Nigro, R., 2020, Filosofías del Barroco. González García, M. & Castignani, H. (eds.). Madrid: Tecnos Edicion, p. 551-567 17 p. 17Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Leben mit Bildern, Leben in Bildern
Söntgen, B. E., 2016, Sprezzatura: Geschichte und Geschichtserzählung zwischen Fakt und Fiktion. Burkart, L., von Müller, C. & von Müller, J. (eds.). Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, p. 71-76 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review