Keynote of the Conference „Living Archives“ Geschichte und Gegenwart intersektional-feministischer Bewegungen in Theorie und Praxis
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
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
paradox
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
decolonial scholarship
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf