Contradiction Studies

Unpacking Coloniality. Towards a Critical Engagement with Modern Discourse

Prof. Lewis R. Gordon (U Connecticut)

06/20/2023 10:00 am 1:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2

Moderated by Prof. Rozena Maart (U Kwa-Zulu Natal, RTG Contradiction Studies)

Please register for the Workshop by E-Mail: shk.grk2686@uni-bremen.de

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l’illusion d’une unité

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

Ingo H. Warnke
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
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
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
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