Blogpost about Panel 5 Verunsicherung einer ’natürlichen‘ Ordnung. (Queer-)feministische Un/Gewissheiten at the Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty Congress. With contributions by Helen Stephan and Carolin Zieringer (RTG Contradiction Studies).
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel