Dr. Katrin Antweiler is awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship

Dr. Katrin Antweiler, ZF-funded researcher at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research, the DFG Research Training Group 2686 – Contradiction Studies, and founding member of the WoC Lab Pluriversal Memories has been awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Antweiler is hosted by Dr. Duane Jethro at the Department for African Studies at the University of Cape Town and her research focuses on the role of memory politics in German external cultural policy in South Africa.

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prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”

Michi Knecht
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana
paradox

“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”

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