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.
“‘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
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”
Kerstin Knopf
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau