Re-figurations of Universalism and Reconstitutions of the Pluriversal
Before 1500, the planetary order was
polycentric, pluriversal and non-capitalist.
There was no one single civilisation that
impinged and intruded over the rest.
Consequently, there could not be any claim
to the universality of each local universal.
After 1500, the planetary order became
capitalist and monocentric. That is, one
single universal, Western Christianity,
managed to inaugurate and institute its
local universal and destituting local universals
of New World civilisations. “Universalism”
became a totalitarian totality of