Whose Universal? There is a fundamental paradox at the heart of modernity. A conference on humanist ideals and colonial reality
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Lecture within the framework of the conference Whose Universal? as part of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art on July 3, 2022 at Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg.
This paper moves from Hannah Arendt to the hunger strike, from The Origins of Totalitarianism to the global periphery, in an effort to understand the radically different meanings Western ideals like liberation and sovereignty now assume in the peripheries.
Organized by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in collaboration with the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art