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Profit et rien d’autre | Profit and nothing but! (Film and Discussion)

Prof. Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies)

06/20/2024 3:15 pm 5:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online

Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck’s homeland, Haiti.

Profit et rien d’autre!
(2001, 57 Min, French with German subtitles)
The English version can be seen here

Introduction to the work of Roaul Peck and moderation of the discussion by Gisela Febel.

View more Information on the Documentary (in German) here.

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power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”

Gisela Febel
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke