Onur Erdur (Humboldt University of Berlin & WOC Visiting Professor 2025) in conversation with Karen Struve and Ehler Voss about his book Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie (School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory).
A complete program overview for the 10 years of WOC – Contradictions Festival, which will take place from November 10 to 14, 2025, can be found here.
“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau