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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“No More Bhopals” A Memorial Screening on the 41st Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy followed by a discussion with Dr. Satinath Sarangi

On the night of December 2–3, 1984, a leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal released over forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas, exposing more than half a million people to one of the deadliest industrial disasters in […]

Dr. Satinath Sarangi (Sambhavana Trust Clinic), Anticolonial CineClub (Universität Münster), Yash Gupta (RTG 2686)

Workshop, Other

12/02/2025

5:00 pm

U Bremen, Grazer Str. 2, 28359 Bremen & Online

Past Events

every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel

Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“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

space

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

city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
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