DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

Decolonial Feminist Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

Workshop

Nurhak Polat (RTG Contradiction Studies) & Mihir Sharma (U Bremen)

6/19/2025
2:00 pm – 7:45 pm

U Bremen GW1

This symposium seeks to explore the possibilities and contradictions surrounding AI. It brings together decolonial feminist perspectives and research on artificial intelligence and opens a space for critical reflection on living with and thinking about ethical futures in relation to AI. Through a transnational approach, the symposium foregrounds diverse positionalities, contested imaginaries, and political struggles that shape — and unshape — the trajectories and ideologies of AI technologies and ethics.

To participate please contact Dr. Nurhak Polat (RTG Contradiction Studies / Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research, U Bremen) or Dr. Mihir Sharma (Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research, U Bremen).

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Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart

decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf

prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”
Michi Knecht

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

name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke