The office manager Katharina Biskup is responsible for the general administration of the RTG and the person for doctoral and post-doctoral fellows to contact in these matters.
University of Bremen
DFG Research Training Group 2686 “Contradiction Studies”
Grazer Straße 2, Room 0160
28359 Bremen, Germany
“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
“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano