14–15 Uhr | Kim Wagener
— Berührung, Widerspruch, Differenz. Aporien tastend-experimentellen Schreibens nach Jean-Luc Nancy
Discussants: tbd
15–16 Uhr | Rainer Stummer
— (Un)Building Contradiction(s) – Postfoundationalism, Ecology, Movement
Discussants: tbd
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff
“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
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf