Résumé. Cet article prend pour matériau le dernier cycle de l'œuvre de Peter Sloterdijk, lequel s'est attelé au développement d'une analyse phénoménologique de la spatialité humaine. L'optique de ...notre contribution consiste à faire état de cette théorisation spatiale à l'égard des constructions politiques. Cette entreprise se présente comme une vaste histoire des traces cosmologiques et architecturales des lieux de production de l'humanité et elle vise une réappropriation de la réflexion anthropologique sur le topos de l'humanité qui a été longtemps subsumé par la métaphysique de l'au-delà et qui est aujourd'hui désagrégé par les processus de mobilisation totale du capital. Abstract. This paper proposes an account of the recent works of Peter Sloterdijk, an author that has developed a phenomenological analysis of human spaces. The aim of my contribution is to put this spatial theorization in relation with political constructions. Sloterdijk's enterprise presents itself as a long history of the cosmological and architectural elements that shape the very spaces of human-production. It is also described as a new path for the understanding of the human topos that has been for too long subsumed by metaphysics of the ‘beyond’ and liquefied nowadays by contemporary mobilization processes of the capital.
This article aims to explore the implications of a narrative device used by César Aira in
Cómo me hice monja
and
La costurera y el viento
, by means of which the author seems to stop his fictions in ...a recurrent and permanent beginning. This deliberate interruption of the narrative process questions the notion of literary narration understood as a causal and teleological sequence, and at the same time it offers to the readers the possibility of elaborating critical interpretations which allow them to access to the aesthetic, political, and philosophical background of the elusive phenomenon of the narrative beginning. Using conceptual and theoretical reflections by David Lodge, Peter Sloterdijk, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Luc Nancy, among others, the beginning is studied in this article as a problem and this problem, at the same time, as the beginning of alternative readings of the two mentioned novels as well as other Aira’s works.
This paper offers a close reading of the ontological anthropology developed by Peter Sloterdijk over the last three decades. Special attention is given to how it resonates with the current political ...situation, and particularly with the imperative to design spaces and techniques that
can sustain life in the midst of revived nativism, triumphant connectivism, and non-stop mobilisation. The paper critically examines Sloterdijk's timely, if often exasperatingly ambivalent treatment of the relation between engendering and enduring, as it plays out in such design.
Sloterdijk's anthropology is concerned with the crafting of habitable spaces out in the cold, open sky. It raises the issue of the viability of a vexing exposure to the incommensurable, the monstrous. On the one hand, I suggest that this concern all too often involves the domestication of
the political, subsuming the emancipatory potential of collective energies under broader concerns with adaptation and endurability. On the other hand, in his most inspired writings Sloterdijk evokes movements of inspiration and ascent that engender worlds in ways that subsist any transfiguration
into mere comfort or tolerance. In dialogue with other contemporary thinkers, this paper thus follows Sloterdijk in exploring the articulation of endurability and intensity, inside and outside, inner consistency and ekstatic decentering. It is a conceptual proposition aimed at the design of
spaces capable of sustaining an increase in openness to the world - knowing that spaces of protection can all too easily morph into spaces of containment.
Sloterdijk has in recent years grown into one of Germany’s most influential thinkers. His work, which is extremely relevant for philosophers, scientists of art and culture, sociologists, political ...scientists and theologists, is only now gradually being translated in English. This book makes his work accessible to a wider audience by putting it to work in orientation towards current issues. Sloterdijk’s philosophy moves from a Heideggerian project to think ‘space and time’ to a Diogenes-inspired ‘kynical’ affirmation of the body and a Deleuzian ontology of network-spheres. In a range of accessible and clearly written chapters, this book discusses the many aspects of this thought.
In Medias Res brengt een gezelschap van gerenommeerde auteurs samen om het oeuvre van Peter Sloterdijk toe te lichten, kritisch te bezien en toe te passen. Sloterdijk is in recente jaren uitgegroeid tot een van de meest toonaangevende Duitse denkers. Zijn werk, dat uitermate relevant is voor filosofen, kunst- en cultuurwetenschappers, sociologen, politicologen en theologen, wordt pas sinds kort vertaald naar het Engels. Dit boek is de eerste Engelstalige bundeling die het werk van Sloterdijk toegankelijk maakt voor een breder publiek. In verschillende, helder geschreven hoofdstukken bespreken de auteurs de vele aspecten van Sloterdijks rijke filosofie.
This paper showcases insights derived from the work of Steven Connor, Peter Sloterdijk, and Sianne Ngai, thinkers who give particularly provocative accounts of why the meanings of work and play have ...changed in the late twentieth century and the way these changes can be read through specific, exemplary objects or services. Following the work of these thinkers, it interprets the relationship between work and play as characteristically dynamic and argues that in cultures where pleasure, fun, and leisure become abundant, the affects associated with these experiences also change. The intent is to provide a suggestive introduction to the work of Connor, Sloterdijk, and Ngai, and do some initial sorting of ideas for subsequent design-focused research. For design practitioners, this article will be useful for the insight generating and discovery phases of the design process. From a design studies and theory perspective, my argument is that the work of these thinkers should sit alongside cultural theorists and philosophers who are more routinely referenced in this field, such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Jean Baudrillard.
This article reflects on the concept of "anthropotechnics", developed by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, showing its dual meaning on "improving the world" (Weltverbesserung) and on ..."improving oneself" (Selbstverbesserung). The author suggests that this twofold idea can be read in relation to the foucauldian concepts of "technologies for the government of populations " (biopolitics) and "technologies of the self" (aesthetics of existence). PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
This article analyses Peter Sloterdijk's grand trilogy on spheres which re-conceptualizes our being-together and its spatial conditions. After a brief outline of the main objectives of sphereology, I ...analyse the notion of foam which, Sloterdijk argues, should replace the concept of society. I here explore the sociological theories that form the backdrop to Sloterdijk's idea of foam sociality, in particular Gabriel Tarde's monadological sociology of imitation but also the vitalist impulse that is central to the immunology of the foam theory, and which Sloterdijk inherits from Hermann Broch. The following section examines one of the important contributions of the foam theory, namely, its explicit engagement with architecture. In the final part, I offer a foam-theoretical interpretation of environmental crime prevention. This case study brings together foam theory, immunology and the focus on architecture.
En el presente artículo se profundiza en el concepto de "antropotécnica", desarrollado in extenso por Sloterdijk en una de sus obras más recientes, Has de cambiar tu vida, donde se aborda la historia ...de la intervención del hombre sobre el hombre, desde las antiguas tradiciones filosóficas de Oriente y Occidente hasta internarse en las modernas tecnologías génicas. Sloterdijk sostendrá que es a través de la noción de antropotécnica por la que el hombre des-oculta los caracteres latentes de su prehumanidad. Es a causa de su infradotación orgánica que el ser humano despliega su potencial técnico. No es, entonces, que el hombre haga "uso" de la técnica, sino que el hombre es, en sí mismo, un animal técnico.//In this paper, the authors examine the concept of "anthropotecnic" developed at length by Sloterdijk in one of his more recent works, You must change your life, which deals with the history of human intervention on man, from the old philosophical traditions of East and West to penetrate in modern genetic technologies. Sloterdijk argue that it is through the notion of antropotecnica by desman hides his prehumanidad invisible characters. It's because of his organic underfunding mankind unfolds its technical potential. There is, then, that man does "use" of technology, but man is, in itself, an animal technician.
Hancock examines the concept of thymotic politics in the works of Peter Sloterdijk and Leo Strauss, and its relationship with American neoconservatism. Peter Sloterdijk's Rage and Time argues for the ...political significance of rage. To do this he turns to the Greek concept thymos which signifies the impulsive centre of the proud self. Sloterdijk acknowledges that he owes a debt in his understanding of thymos to Leo Strauss. For Strauss, the solution to the problem is that all become wise, because only the wise can be satisfied in the endstate. This philosophic satisfaction is the only form of satisfaction possible in the end-state because it lacks interest in prestige.
Tuinen discusses Peter Sloterdijk's Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation (2006) continues a line of research that begins with the Critique of Cynical Reason (1983), which already abounded ...with references to psychopolitics. Far from psychologising political powers, psychopolitics deals with the ecology and economy of energies or affects that are articulated only on a collective level. Although he argues that the problem of ressentiment is central to Sloterdijk's general philosophical project, the strategies for its overcoming have shifted to such an extent that, at first sight, there appears an almost unbridgeable gap between his earlier and later works.
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