This talk focuses on an afro-diasporic community located in an Andalusian town (Southern Spain). It concerns a series of families whose identity is linked to the early modern slave trade, while Spanish mainstream society tends not to remember this period of its history. During the session, we will reflect on the boundaries between history and social experience in this specific context.
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau