Contradiction Studies

Negotiation the Incompatible. A Discourse-Linguistic Praxiography of Queer Liturgic Practice in Germany

05/04/2023 6:00 pm 7:30 pm

U Bremen GW1 A 0150 & online

Jonas Trochemowitz

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Fellow: Eva Arnaszus

Guest: Prof. Dr. Phillip Dreesen | ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften

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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
decolonial scholarship

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

Kerstin Knopf
coherence in thought

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

Yan Suarsana
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
Is contradiction eurocentric?

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

Kerstin Knopf