Contradiction Studies

Longing and Belonging in Black African diasporic Literature written in French and Spanish

Nelson Sindze Wembe (RTG Contradiction Studies), Maren Schwarz (RTG Contradiction Studies), Dr. Dorothy Odartey-Wellington (University of Guelph)

01/31/2023 4:30 pm 6:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”

Gisela Febel
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff