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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articulate

“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”

Martin Nonhoff
diversity and plurality

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Gisela Febel
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
sustained engagement

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

Norman Sieroka
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)

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