ABSTRACT
Globalization of either the capitalist or communist system has proved to be disastrous. A crucial response for our post-global world does not reside in renouncing the universal. Instead, it is necessary, on the one hand, to come to terms with socio-cultural differences and, on the other, to envisage universalities produced, via post-negative praxes, from the differences, giving rise to a community of singular, incommensurable universalities. Based on the distinction and connection between negativity and production, this essay enacts a dialogue between Buddhism and critical theory, mainly Slavoj Žižek’s thoughts, and formulates four universalities and their movements. And to prove that the concepts of universality under discussion do not just exist in philosophical speculations, Taiwan is taken as an example to consider how this “part-of-no-part” society might or might not materialize incommensurable common universality.
