Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu (RTG Contradiction Studies), Lindokuhle Shabene, Prof.Dr. Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen)

12/06/2022 2:30 pm 4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”

Julia Lossau
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke