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 not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)
Rozena Maart
“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
“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