Samoa – “Jewel of Germany’s Pacific?”

Tony Brunt & Dr. Nicole Perry (U Auckland)

06/27/2024 12:15 pm 1:45 pm

U Bremen MZH 1460

This Expert Talk is part of the lecture series “Bremer Denkanstöße” by the Institut für postkoloniale und transkulturelle Studien (INPUTS), U Bremen.

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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
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
sustained engagement

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

Norman Sieroka
interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano