The Allures and Pitfalls of Hashtag Acitivism

06/15/2023 4:15 pm 5:45 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030 & online

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu (RTG Contradiction Studies)

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Fellow: Nelson Sindze Wembe (RTG Contradiction Studies)

Guest: Dr. Daria Dergacheva (ZeMKI)

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problem to be solved

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

Martin Nonhoff
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
articulate

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

Martin Nonhoff
diversity and plurality

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Gisela Febel