The Disruptive Potential of Declarative Speech
at Diskurs – interdisziplinär 12. Discourses in/of Disruption | 16.–17.11.2023 | TU Dresden
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
coherence in thought
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
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
earthing
“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau
hierarchy of norms
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano