The lecture and discussion will be held in English. Based on Christian’s lecture titled “Poetics of Theory. Contradictory Narrations and Activist Theory Production” we will approach the question of contradiction/contradicting and its (reflexive) relation to the practice of theory.
Dr. Christian Leonhardt | InIIs
Samia Mohammed | InIIS & RTG Contradiction Studies
Carolin Zieringer | InIIS & RTG Contradiction Studies
“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke