International Conference "Critical Stances - Critique as Practice", Lueneburg.

Description

Hosted by the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique / Kulturen der Kritik”.

Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Each critical practice has its own setting, its own temporality and its own mode. In its situated character, critique emerges in a contradictory context of proximity and distance to its object. It is determined by its objects, yet never accesses them immediately, but always mediated through its own forms of (re)presentation [“Darstellung”].

The conference “Critical Stances” addresses the interrelation between critique and its object through an analysis of critical stances, their forms, media, and effects. It asks where, how, whereof, and when, critical practices appear, and how the interdependence of critique and object translates into critical stances. We understand stances as learnable, reproducible gestures, which bear witness to changing conditions and media of critical practice. Stances – “Haltung” in German – simultaneously condense and interrupt habitual behavior – put it “on hold” [“Halt”].

In four sections, the conference’s guiding questions concern the constitution of the object of critique, the forms of subjectivation in and through critique, as well as the possibilities and forms of critical stances in different power relations.

Organized by Catharina Berents, Erich Hörl, Sami Khatib, Holger Kuhn, Susanne Leeb, Liza Mattutat, Roberto Nigro, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Nadine Schiel, Beate Söntgen, Heiko Stubenrauch und Lotte Warnsholdt.

Période	21 juin 2018 → 23 juin 2018
Type d'événement	Une conférence
Lieu	Lüneburg, Allemagne
Niveau de reconnaissance	International