The presentation is dedicated to exploring the social-political-philosophical place of contradiction, paradox, and creativity in generating ideas and frameworks of thought in contemporary society.Contradictions in everyday usage lead to conflicts in antinomies, often articulated as paradoxes. Antinomian (from anti-nomia) thought is closely related to ontological dualism, the bias of specific thinking methods to divide the world into two mutually exclusive principles.One expression of such aporiae and conflict is the emergence of critique as the reflective delimitation of the conditions of the possibility of forms of knowledge and the experimental invention of alternative intellectual formations. Often, such discourses have the self-reflective appearance of `dialectical’ or `dialogical’ inquiries. Hence, the dialectical project aims to `overcome’ and `sublate’ dualist, oppositional, and ironic thinking styles. In the same tradition, the supersession of abstract and reified divisions is seen to be central to the work of contemporary philosophical reflexivity.The paper's core analysis is how developments in contemporary hyper-mediated and hyper-semiotic global cultures provide contexts for such emergent societal alternatives and problematics.Coming to terms with these paradoxes prefigures the beginnings of alternative ways of thinking. This involves not merely novel models and theories but radically different modes of being and forms of thought.