Mojca Pajnik: Reclaiming Humanity - The Utopias of World Citizenship
Channel: Aksioma
Date: 04/07/2019

Talk by Mojca Pajnik at the Centre for Urban Culture Kino Šiška.
Ljubljana, 24 April 2018

Realised in the framework of the seminar "Tactics & Practice #6: Transnationalisms - Bodies, Borders, and Technology", curated by James Bridle.
https://aksioma.org/transnationalisms
https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice

The transnational reality of living in contemporary global societies poses several challenges for contemporary societies. The prioritization of western nation-state membership and economic imperatives has produced second-class citizenships, while the inhumanity of managing migration by reintroducing border regimes and prioritizing fake security has robbed millions of individuals of their humanity, and fed populist rage against migrants. World citizenship, based on more than the nation state, might assume an interplay of institutional policy with non-institutional practices of various subjectivities, constituting the public. Reclaiming humanity against “the globalization of indifference” requires a utopian invention of “worldliness of people” that stands for a political project of equality, rather than the moral project of the defence of traditions.