A review essay covering books by 1) M. Arias Maldonado, Antropoceno, la política en la era humana (2018), 2) J. Moore, La trama de la vida en los umbrales del Capitaloceno (2020) and 3) P. ...Sloterdijk, ¿Qué sucedió en el Siglo XX? (2018).
Tauchgänge zur German Theory Korf, Benedikt; Rothfuß, Eberhard; Wolf-Dietrich, Sahr
Geographica Helvetica,
02/2022, Letnik:
77, Številka:
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Journal Article
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Kurzfassung In this editorial, we sketch the intellectual agenda for a themed issue onGerman Theory. We understand German Theory as a creative and dialogical space to engage a multitude of thought ...styles, common in the Geisteswissenschaften and to bring them into conversations with anglophone, as much as francophone, lusophone, Italian, Spanish and other forms of Theory. This agenda promotes a ‚provincialization‘ of anglophone Geography that is connecting these thought styles rather than confining them to bounded provinces in debate. „German Theory“, thus understood, is ultimately an entangled theory.
The notion of ignorance has become a central topic in social, political, and organizational research, with scholars thus beginning to explore the distribution and strategic uses of not-knowing (Gross ...and McGoey, 2015). Claiming that ignorance involves making decisions on what should be seen or unseen (Otto et al., 2019), they are calling for insights into the intermediary states produced between knowledge and non-knowledge in practice. Answering this call, the present article empirically details how practices of seeing and unseeing take place within and across the transparent architecture of a newly built psychiatric hospital in Denmark. Drawing on participant observations and interviews with nursing staff, we examine the role that spatial and material circumstances play in the situated production of ignorance. As such, we consider how the mutual visibility afforded by the transparent design of a nursing station in an inpatient setting produces what we suggest is a shared zone of ignorance . Inspired by the work of German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, this article extends current understandings of how ignorance is tethered to the spatial (Frickel and
...Sloterdijk initially planned to write a celebration paper on Assmann. Structured into two parts, the book sets out to bring together a number of theological-philosophical-literary themes, on the ...basis of which the author presents, in a philosophical manner, the concept of theopoetics or on religion as poetry, as Robert Hughes explanatorily translates the concept of die Theopoesie. ...the problem of the "unspoken", of the supernal other, of heaven, is rendered into words, into poetry, because it is only through speech that we are brought face to face with the irrational and thus able to bring "heaven" into the world, in a language we can understand. The discussion that follows in this book will concern primarily communicative, bright heavens inviting uplift, because, in accord with the task of poetic enlightenment, the heavens constitute the common provenance of gods, verse, and the uplifting of spirits (2023, XII). ...the problem of transposing the heavens as communicative "images" is caused by man's inability to perceive the heavens in their essence, as Sloterdijk states: "the heavens that can be made to speak are not a possible object of visual perception" (2023, XI). ...just as through singing the higher powers reach man's ear, so does through speech heaven reaches man's language. ...cathedrals would be fables written in hard stone; priests would be actors absorbed in their roles; martyrs would be sorcerers' apprentices who never return from their journeys into the hereafter; theologians would be dramaturges who deal with the grammar of fables (2023, 44). According to Sloterdijk (2023, 44), they describe an innate pre-programming of the human brain, also called the religious brain, that produces beliefs regarding the presence of forces, of "supernatural agents" (Boyer 2001, 16). ...this sensitivity to transcendence is merely a natural faculty of the human brain to think of the existence of highly intelligent structures.
This study examines the challenges of humanism and education in the 21st century as addressed by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk in his Elmau Speech (1999). In this lecture, titled
Rules for ...the Human Zoo
, Sloterdijk argues that the traditional notion of humanism, specifically “humanism as a literary society,” has reached its conclusion, necessitating the development of a new humanism appropriate for the contemporary era. However, the new concept of humanism emerging from what Sloterdijk terms the “anthropotechnic turn” appears to align with the discourses surrounding human enhancement that have emerged in the 21st century, thereby influencing the realm of education. The first half of this article reports on the significant concerns and criticisms expressed by the media at that time regarding this new humanism, which seems to be associated with eugenicist ideas. Taking a step further, this study critically examines the nature of the challenges around education implied by Sloterdijk, specifically the conflict between “friend of humans and friend of Übermensch”, and explores the potential roles and responsibilities of education in the latter part of the paper.
In related work, Peter Sloterdijk has pointed out that, despite Magellan, the old word for the firmament (the continens or "container") was transferred to giant landmasses, as though the land ...surrounded or contained the oceans, rather than the reverse.1 Redrawing attention to the history of the European discovery of the Pacific, then, allows the Atlantic to be seen anew. ...the original contribution of Transoceanic America is not simply to add Pacific contexts to Atlantic Studies. The result for historiography was a modern definition of revolution that seemed to be modelled after Atlantic conflicts while leaving Pacific history out, despite ample evidence of the importance of transpacific trade for many of the leading figures in the American Revolution. The premise of Antipodean medicine or of transoceanic agricultural experiments was that nourishing Pacific exotics (most famously breadfruit, or in the case of Earle's novel, an "obi bag" of assorted remedies) could cure Atlantic hunger or disease.
Testimonial and Fiction Writings of recent past, especially traumatic recent past, have effects and impacts in our complex contemporary times. This confusing, disenchanted, liquid present is the mark ...of neoliberalism and biopolitics in bodies and minds (“threaten eros”, Byung Chul-Han said). However, we can find an answer to death, pain and ideological scepticism and individualism in a community of affection (Berardi, Emmelhainz), in the pleasure of language, in humor or lightness (Todorov Calvino). The way to access knowledge is diverse and social and poetic memories can be more interesting than historical documents. The trauma of Chilean postdictatorship is written and told by contemporary narrative in a mixture of fantastic and realistic engagement. These writers are part of the postmemory generation (Hirsch). Mapocho (2002) by Nona Fernández and La resta by Alia Trabucco are the books who can help us to draw a possible map of some Chilean literary resistance.
While drones are celebrated as the most precise form of weaponry that target specific individuals, this article argues that drone warfare still operates through the primary targeting of the ...environment. However, unlike earlier uses of bombs and rockets that targeted the physical environment, the drone apparatus - UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), cameras, servers, algorithms - primarily targets the social environment of those being surveilled in order to decide who should be killed. Monitoring, profiling and projecting 'patterns of life' from everyday communication, association and movement is the primary function of the drone apparatus as it searches for 'signatures' of hostility among the mass of data it accumulates. The drone apparatus therefore functions by making explicit the background sayings and doings of the enemy's everyday life. To understand the nature of this explication of the social and its connection to contemporary warfare the article deploys the work of Peter Sloterdijk and his theory of 'atmoterrorism'.
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