The Universal Continuum
The legacy of the Copernican Revolution – that is the revolution by and according to the open – is comprised of three components: The speculative drive of “an extreme line of thought”, the revolutionary vocation of “disturbing the peace of this world in still another way” and the true-to-the-universe logic of delivering all expressions of isolation and discreteness “remorselessly into the open.”
The universal continuum is the unbound and continuous relation of the universal to itself that is free from any intrinsic transcendental bound, absolute expression of discreteness and fundamental obstruction. All general-particular and global-regional dialectics signify the unbound and continuous relation of the universal to itself, or the universal continuum. The Copernican universe cannot be thought except within and as a universal continuum where the universal fibrates into its various modalities, general and particular instances, global and regional horizons. In this respect, since geophilosophy examines the earth as the regional horizon of thought, it must be pursued by means of a Copernican and coherent thought of the universal continuum (where the universe is understood as the interweaving of general and particular instances of the universal’s unbound relation to itself).
Reza Negarestani, Globe of Revolution - An Afterthought on Geophilosophical Realism, 2011.