New publication "kritische Berichte" Vol.53 No.1 2025

What do genres do in the digital age? Digital distribution platforms and social media are making genres disappear, creating new ones and radically changing their function. With reference to current genre theories, the articles in this issue examine how TikTok and Instagram produce new forms and communities of discourse, what digital exhibitions are, how podcasts intervene legally and why contemporary art is interested in TV genres. Countering the modernist thesis that genres are becoming obsolete, the issue explicitly explores the social, aesthetic and epistemic potential of genres and genres in the digital present.