Toolbox – Contradiction Studies #11 in the winter term 2025/26 – Workspace: internal workshop
city
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
coherence in thought
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
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
l’illusion d’une unité
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
articulate
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff