Workspace/Kolloquium #2 in the winter term 2025/26
l’illusion d’une unité
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
paradox
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
power and resistance
“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel