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
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
“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