Contradiction Studies

»Paying attention to contradictions ›allows an argument to take off in one direction by rendering another (direction of argument) also present‹« (Marilyn Strathern)

Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies)

07/07/2022 5:45 pm –7:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Readings

Bartole, Tomi. 2020. The Ontological Antinomy. Food, Surfaces, and Transcendence in the Village of Awim, Papua New Guinea. In HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10(3), 874–889. https://doi.org/10.1086/711879 (17.05.2022).

Mol, Annemarie. 2002. TheBodyMultiple: Ontology inMedicalPractice. Durham: Duke University Press,Chap. 4:›Distribution‹, 87–118.

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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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every day

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sustained engagement

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