Contradiction Studies

»The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). How to decolonize contradiction»

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Gisela Febel (RTG Contradiction Studies), Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies)& Kerstin Knopf (RTG Contradiction Studies)

06/30/2022 4:15 pm –5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Readings

Da Costa Marques, Ivan. 2021. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices. In Andrea Ballestero & Brit Ross Winthereik (eds.).Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion to Analysis, 219–234. Durham: Duke University Press. https://andreaballesterodotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/ballesterowinthereik-2021-experimenting_with_ethnography.pdf (25.05.2022).

Maart, Rozena. 2020. Introduction – Decoloniality and Decolonial Education: South Africa and the World. In Alternation 33, 15– 44.

Mignolo, Walter D. 2007. DELINKING. The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and theGrammar of De- coloniality. In Cultural Studies 21(2), 449–514.

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l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
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)

Rozena Maart
limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel
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
idea of democratic critique

“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