Un/certain Times for the ‘NaturalOrder’? Queer-Feminist Critiques of Authoritarian Phantasms and Emancipatory Rebuttals
Panel at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.
Panel at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.
“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel
“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
“‘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
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff