The lecture is part of the conference “Das geht zu weit!” organized by the research group Diskursmonitor. Linguistic-communicative strategies of legitimizing and delegitimizing protest in public, media and political discourses will be discussed.
Further information here: https://diskursmonitor.de/review/tagung-2025-das-geht-zu-weit/
“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
“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
“‘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
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff