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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prison of difference

“‘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
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf
city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

Julia Lossau