Cultures of Critique

14.06.2023 Public Keynote by Todd Shepard | Flyer

The Coloniality of the ‚Annular‘? – Hocquenghem, Guyotat, and the Arab Revolution
as a part of the workshop "Radical Desires and Decolonial Critique"
7.45 pm – 9 pm, Central Building, C40.601
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21.06.2023 Public Lecture with Susan Buck-Morss | Poster

A Philosophical Dissolution of History: The Myth of Year 1
6-8 pm, Central Building, C40.256
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04.07.2023 PUBLIC LECTURE with Amelia Jones | FLYER

In Between Subjects
6-8 pm, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Kunstraum
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We are very pleased to welcome the third generation of doctoral students at Cultures of Critique! Thirteen new members have started work in the winter term 2022/2023 and are making important contributions to the updating of a concept of critique in cultural studies with their projects.

• Kelly Bescherer: On Management and Refusal: Identitätsklärung as a Contested Practice of Control within the German Deportation Regime
• Jan-Hauke Branding: ›Sagen, was wir sind‹ – Die Theoriebildung der radikalen Schwulenbewegung als (Konstellation der) Kritik
• Raphael Daibert: Lifting the Sky: Practices to Sustain Worlds Otherwise
• Volha Davydzik: Political Art Practices and their Role in Shaping the Solidarity and Networks of Care in Non-democratic Societies
• Felix Leonhard Esch: V-Shapes of Capitalism. Der Wachstumszwang der Moderne und seine Manifestation im menschlichen Körper.
• Jörg Hügel: Auf der Suche nach der klassenlosen Gesellschaft. ‚Urkommunismus‘ als narratives Konzept zwischen 1848 und 1940
• Dyoniz Kindata: German and Swahili Colonial Newspapers in German East Africa 1885-1918 as Multimodal Sites of Emergence of Social Knowledge and Cultures of Critique
• Stasya Korotkova: Queer Sensuality and Cross-dressing in the Cinema of the Russian Empire (1909-1917)
• Melcher Ruhkopf: Das Logistische Museum – Logistikkritik und museale Praxis
• Laura Felicitas Sabel: Praktiken des Transitorischen: Restitution und Museumspraxis anhand des (im)materiellen Kulturerbe der Nachfahren der Tairona der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Kolumbien (Arbeitstitel)
• Donovan Stewart: The Ecotechnical Community: Concerning the Problem of the (Re)organisation of Political Place
• Lukas Stolz: The Chronopolitics of the Climate Catastrophe: Eco-Imaginaries beyond Fatalism and Cruel Optimism.
• Julian Volz: Kunst, Gesellschaft und antikoloniale Befreiungsbewegung: Das revolutionäre Algerien in der Gegenwartskunst