Jonas Trochemowitz at the Science Slam in Lübeck.

On October 26, 2024, Jonas Trochemowitz presented the results of his dissertation at the Science Slam in the St. Petri Church in Lübeck. The competition offered scientists a stage to present research in an understandable and entertaining way. In addition to Trochemowitz, other participants from various scientific disciplines competed to inspire the audience with exciting insights.

Jonas Trochemowitz writes a dissertation with the title “Negotiating the Incompatible – A Linguistic Discourse-Praxeography of Queer-Christian Subjectivation”. You can found more about the research project here.

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Afterlife of colonialism

“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
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“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
sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”

Norman Sieroka
power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”

Gisela Febel