Samia Mohammed
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Fellow: Jan Bartsch
Guest: Prof. Dr. Francesca Raimondi | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
every day
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
l’illusion d’une unité
“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”
Ingo H. Warnke
coherence in thought
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke