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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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Researchers

  1. Stephan Lassen

Publications

  1. Visualizations of projected rainfall change in the United Kingdom
  2. Begriff und Merkmale junger Unternehmen
  3. The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity: first evidence from a matching approach
  4. Risk Aversion and Worker Sorting into Public Sector Employment
  5. Accumulation and Subjectivity
  6. Study of digital morphing tools in the architectural design process
  7. Is globalization healthy
  8. Die Vielfalt des Lebens gestalten.
  9. The university’s unknown knowledge
  10. Fallstudie
  11. Environmental capacity and airport operations
  12. Mindfulness and Sustainable Consumption
  13. Soil [N] modulates soil C cycling in CO2-fumigated tree stands
  14. Trusting as a 'Leap of Faith': Trust-Building Practices in Client-Consultant Relationships
  15. Joint production, externalities, and the regulation of production networks
  16. Instrumentality
  17. Associations between the financial and industry expertise of audit committee members and Key Audit Matters within related audit reports
  18. Heteroaggregation of titanium dioxide nanoparticles with model natural colloids under environmentally relevant conditions
  19. A comparison of self-reports and electrodermal activity as indicators of mathematics state anxiety.
  20. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
  21. Modeling approach of thermal decomposition of salt-hydrates for heat storage systems
  22. Ansparabschreibung durch Existenzgründer
  23. Stand up for the champion
  24. The reproductive potential and importance of key management aspects for successful Calluna vulgaris rejuvenation on abandoned Continental heaths
  25. The Settlement of EEZ Fisheries Access Disputes under UNCLOS
  26. The Making of Les Immatériaux
  27. The Eschatical Perfection of the World in God
  28. Introduction
  29. Pricing effects when competitors arrive
  30. Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests
  31. Who are we and who are you? The strategic use of forms of address in political interviews
  32. An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management
  33. Was Polybios an einer modernen Universität zu suchen hat