Within the history of the Cape, the southern most tip of Africa, the period of Enslavement began in 1652 from the East and West of Africa, then from Bengal, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mauritius. The project “Faces of Enslavement” is part of a larger project called HISTORIES OF ENSLAVEMENT, and focus on how the enslaved population were named after the month of their enslavement.
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“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
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana