Conflicting Spatialities?

Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau (RTG Contradiction Studies)

11/15/2022 4:30 pm 6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Please read one of two texts in the version of your choice.

Readings

Lefebvre, Henri (1974): Dessein de l‘Ouvrage. In: Lefebvre, Henri: La Production de l’Espace, 39–53. Paris: Editions Anthropos. [Dt.: Lefebvre, Henri [1974] (2006): Die Produktion des Raums. Übersetzt von Jörg Dünne. In Dünne, Jörg, Stephan Günzel (eds.): Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaften, 330-342. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.] [Engl.: Lefebvre, Henri [1974](2007): Plan of the present work. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. In Lefebvre, Henri: The Production of Space, 1-67. Malden: Blackwell.]

Foucault, Michel. [1984] 2005. Des espaces autres. In Magnago Lampugnani, Vittorio, Katia Frey & Eliana Perotti (eds.) Anthologie zum Städtebau 3: Vom Wiederaufbau nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zur zeitgenössischen Stadt, 1-67. Berlin: Mann. [Engl.: Foucault, Michel. [1984] 1986. Of Other Spaces.  Translated by Jay Miskowiec. In Diacritics, 16 (1), 22-27.] [Dt. Foucault, Michel. [1984] 2008. Von anderen Räumen. Übersetzt von Michael Bischoff. In Dünne, Jörg, Stephan Günzel (eds.) Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaften, 317-329. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Back to overview
articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff
space

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

Julia Lossau
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

Norman Sieroka
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel