Panel 5
Verunsicherung einer ‘natürlichen’ Ordnung. (Queer-)feministische Un/Gewissheiten at the Congress Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty
Is contradiction eurocentric?
“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
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
coherence in thought
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
name contradiction
“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke