Guest lecture as part of the seminar “Sprache, Wissen, Macht in biomedizinischen Diskursen” (Prof. Dr. Constanze Spieß and Lesley-Ann Kern)
“‘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
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”
Michi Knecht