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DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique"

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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

Main research areas

Kunstkritik, Medienkritik, Sozialkritik

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Activities

  1. Open Interdisciplinary Seminar series “Scientific Environment” 6th Meeting of the Spring Session - 2013
  2. Managing Utopia: Artistic visions of sustainable lifestyles and their realization
  3. Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Externe Organisation)
  4. A Hayekian Perspective on Social Franchising: Scaling Social Entrepreneurship by Combining Small-Group and Big-Group Logics
  5. forum anders reisen e.V. (Externe Organisation)
  6. Genetic diversity and extent of hybridization of invasive Ulmus pumila.
  7. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisation)
  8. ProMentoring 2018
  9. diaphanes (Verlag)
  10. »art can lick my juicy ass ... my form is myself«
  11. Digitale Archive 2000
  12. “Oh ok. (.) Yeah, do you have like Christmas exams or anything?” Constructing small talk in learner - native speaker voice-based telecollaboration
  13. Language Learning in the Mainstream Classroom: Social Studies Teachers‘ Approaches and Attitude
  14. Forschungsseminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Publications

  1. Harmful interference and human rights
  2. Group-level physiological synchrony and individual-level anxiety predict positive affective behaviors during a group decision-making task
  3. Diversität und Heterogenität
  4. Modeling approach of thermal decomposition of salt-hydrates for heat storage systems
  5. Stochastic environmental policy, risk-taking, and growth
  6. Queer mobiles and mobile queers
  7. Moving beyond “the” business case: How to make corporate sustainability work
  8. A meta-analysis on gender differences in negotiation outcomes and their moderators
  9. Building urban resilience through sustainability‑oriented small‑ and medium‑sized enterprises
  10. Correlation of trends in cashmere production and declines of large wild mammals
  11. Effectiveness and Efficiency of Assertive Outreach for Schizophrenia in Germany
  12. Jenny and Abigail on the rocks
  13. Analyzing social interactions
  14. In situ synchrotron radiation diffraction during melting and solidification of Mg-Al alloys containing CaO
  15. Time Rules and Time Budgets in Legislatures
  16. Examat
  17. Social Exclusion and Housing
  18. Investigation of the dynamic grain structure evolution during hot extrusion of En AW-6082
  19. Towards an agri-environment index for biodiversity conservation payment schemes
  20. Fundamentals of tourism:
  21. Introduction
  22. Inquiry-based Science Education and Special Needs – Teachers’ Reflections on an Inclusive Setting
  23. The nortvis of behaviour in space
  24. Work-in-Progress
  25. 'Visions behind the Veil'
  26. European welfare states constructing “Unaccompanied Minors”