Toolbox #3a | »The danger of a single story« (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – How to decolonize Contradiction (Gisela Febel & Kerstin Knopf)
Toolbox #3b | Resistance and Counterhegemony (Gisela Febel)
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
sustained engagement
“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka
Is contradiction eurocentric?
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf
interstice
“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
limits
“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel