Contradiction Studies

Spaces Old and New

Prof. Dr. Julia Lossau (RTG Contradiction Studies)

11/15/2022 2:30 pm 4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

Readings

Lossau, Julia. 2020. Anthropogeography. In Kobayashi, Audrey (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 1, 147-154. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Massey, Doreen. 1999. Spaces of Politics. In Massey, Doreen, John Allen & Philip Sarre (eds.): 

Human Geography Today, 279-294.Cambridge, Malden: Polity Press.

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coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana
driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”

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
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
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