From recognition to acknowledgement Conchita Wurst and the taxonomy of our worlds

Abstract

Abstract In the case of a Popperian Open Society – as opposed to the rigid categories of closed societies – there is a tendency to question or even change the categories of any subsystems. This is totally analogous to the open and closed cognitive mechanisms, as psychologists call them. The discourses following the victory of Conchita Wurst after the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest clearly show the inequalities of the categorical abundance of different cultures. This paper proposes that the terminology of a discourse represents the level of tolerance, for example, taxonomical and semantic defectiveness of a given discourse corresponds to a lower degree of tolerance. But how could we reveal a method for describing taxonomical inequalities in different cultures? This paper aims to answer mainly this question. Keywords: toleration, open society, queer theory, re-categorization, LGBT+