In fall 2025, Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) will be 10 years old. In cooperation with the DFG Research Training Group 2686 Contradiction Studies, we cordially invite you to celebrate this anniversary together. An overview of the planned program for the 10th anniversary WOC Contradictions Festival from 11 – 14 November 2025 can be found here.
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke
“‘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