In Praise of Rootlessness Lecture at Ashkal Alwan

As part of the Home Works 6 Platform, Ashkal Alwan is hosting a live-streamed lecture by Reza Negarestani, moderated by Hisham Awad, called “In Praise of Rootlessness”.

As the arch-nemesis of both localist fundamentalism and the global myth of common grounds, universalism can be traced back to the public and communal organization of the world in the absence of any possibility of privacy-in-the-last-instance.

The aim of this talk is threefold; one, to examine the conceptual structure of universalism as a generative field between understanding and action; two, synchronizing universalism with the post-Copernican universe of modern sciences; and three, to propose a general topography of the universalist thought as a regional procedure that step-by-step frees the subject from “the tyranny of the here and now”.