Lv Xiaoyu on Against Order | Tianxia III 2022
Professor Lv Xiaoyu from Peking University proposes that the liminal and in-between state of the global is no longer a short crisis, but a state of prolonged and permanent interregnum. Driven by the urge for order, alternative proposals with minimalist and maximalist moralities represent the consensus-oriented approach to facilitate transitions towards new orders. His presentation overturns the direction of inquiry and asks how we already manage to live in disorder, in the absence of normative consensus. Living in disagreement opens the space for ethics of disorder and practices of conviviality that do not require the pre-existence of a planetary order. It celebrates the spirit of doubting and forgetting and allows the switching of moral worlds that deals with change, uncertainty and alterity in our time.