Un/certain Times for the ‘NaturalOrder’? Queer-Feminist Critiques of Authoritarian Phantasms and Emancipatory Rebuttals

Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies & InIIS),

07/10/2024 07/10/2024

U Gent

Panel at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.

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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
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
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
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf