Preparation of the Interfaces Retreat
idea of democratic critique
“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
space
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
diversity and plurality
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
Is contradiction eurocentric?
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf
earthing
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau