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Workshop #3 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics

Nurhak Polat (RTG Contradiction Studies)

07/08/2025 10:00 am 12:00 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

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driver

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

Norman Sieroka
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
sustained engagement

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

Norman Sieroka
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
decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf