Contradiction Studies

Discourses in Contradiction

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Anna Mattfeldt (RTG Contradiction Studies) & Ingo H. Warnke (RTG Contradiction Studies)

07/21/2022 4:15 pm –5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Readings:

Felder, Ekkehard. 2006. Semantische Kämpfe in Wissensdomänen. Eine Einführung in Benennungs-,Bedeutungs-und Sachverhaltsfixierungs-Konkurrenzen. In Felder, Ekkehard (ed.), Semantische Kämpfe. Macht und Sprache in den Wissenschaften, 13–46. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

Foucault, Michel. 1969. L’archéologie du savoir. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, Chap. 3: ›Les contradictions‹, 195–204. [Eng.: The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books, Chap. 3: ›Contradictions‹, 149–156. Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language (monoskop.org)(17.05.2022)]; [Ger.: 1981. Archäologie des Wissens. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, Kap. 3: ›Die Widersprüche‹, 213–223.]

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Afterlife of colonialism

“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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

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
space

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

Julia Lossau
idea of democratic critique

“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