Iryna Pinchuk
The student assistants support the processes in the Contradiction Studies Research Training Group.
Iryna supports the coordination team and the fellows in their research-related tasks
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
decolonial scholarship
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
idea of democratic critique
“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff
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
articulate
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff