Alison Schönwald
The student assistants support the processes in the Contradiction Studies Research Training Group.
Alison supports the coordinating team and the fellows in their research-related tasks.
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
earthing
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
paradox
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano