The special issue, The Old Drift: Disruption, guest edited by our fellow, Dr. Deborah Nyangulu, in Research in African Literatures is from this week available as open access. All articles in the Issue are free to read and you can access them here.
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
“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
“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
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“‘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