DeMarg 5: Tracing Forms of De/Marginalization
Conference of the European Network on Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalization (DeMarg)
Conference of the European Network on Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalization (DeMarg)
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau