Toolbox in the Summer Term 2025
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
earthing
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
prison of difference
“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht
problem to be solved
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel