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
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“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