The academic coordinator is responsible for the conceptual and strategic direction and planning of the RTG. At the same time, he is the person doctoral and post-doctoral fellows can contact with any questions they may have during their time at the RTG.
University of Bremen
DFG Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies”
Grazer Straße 2, Room 0161
28359 Bremen, Germany
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel
“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel
“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
“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