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Workshop #1 – Data as/in Contradictions: Research, Practices, Politics (Postdoc Intro)

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Deborah Nyangulu, Nurhak Polat & Katrin Antweiler (GRK Contradiction Studies)

24.06.2025

16:30 –17:30 Uhr

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Drawing on the research projects of the postdoctoral Fellows of the RTG 2686, this three-part workshop invites our doctoral researchers to collectively reflect on the intersections between data and contradictions. We will explore how data is both shaped by political, social, and epistemic contradictions and, in turn, actively shapes these contradictions. To what extent does data become a contradictory tool, a contested site of knowledge, or a catalyst for compromise, ambiguity, and inconsistency? In the first session, the Postdoctoral Fellows will outline their research focus, providing a starting point for critical engagement. Across the following sessions, we will critically engage with data and data politics as both a tool and an object of research within the framework of Contradiction Studies through interactive formats.

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Raum

„Mit Niklas Luhmann kann man Raum als ‚Sondereinrichtung zur Negation von Widersprüchen‘ begreifen.“

Julia Lossau
Afterlife of colonialism

“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
Widerspruch benennen

»Widerspruch wird da real, wo jemand Widerspruch benennt.«

Ingo H. Warnke
anhaltendes Widersprechen

„Die Geschichte der abendländischen Philosophie lässt sich verstehen als ein anhaltendes Widersprechen und als eine anhaltende Auseinandersetzung mit Widersprüchen.“

Norman Sieroka
Zwischenraum

„Der Widerspruch des Rechts bei Derrida liegt in dem Zwischenraum, der die Unmöglichkeit einer Dekonstruktion der Gerechtigkeit von der Möglichkeit der Dekonstruktion des Rechts trennt.“

Andreas Fischer-Lescano