Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #14 in the winter term 2025/26: : Informal annual meeting
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
diversity and plurality
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
earthing
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
l’illusion d’une unité
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
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