A Century of Atmospheric Warfare: 1915-2015

[jochen stremmel]

Sorry. "Sloterdijk's German is ten times better than Stremmel's." Make
that: ... Stremmel's English.

The English of Sloterdijk's translators is better than Sloterdijk's German:
"as few words as possible": simple and elegant; "einem Minimum an
Ausdrücken": would you write that, Kai? I don't think so.

A-and for the record, that middle name Kai gives me is no quote of mine.

2015-04-23 13:17 GMT+02:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:

>
> On 23.04.2015 12:18, jochen "I read two or three sentences by Sloterdijk
> in 1983"  stremmel wrote:
>
>   "If asked to say in a single sentence and as few words as possible
> what, apart from its incommensurable achievements in the arts, the 20th
> century introduced into the history of civilization by way of singular and
> incomparable features, the response would emerge with three criteria."
>
>  That single sentence is representative for most if not all of
> Sloterdijk's writing. He simply can't do it. But that he does well.
>
>
> Huh? The quoted sentence is to introduce the one immediately to follow:
> "Anybody wanting to grasp the originality of the era has to consider: the
> practice of terrorism, the concept of product design, and environmental
> thinking." I don't know what your problem is. Except for the resentment ...
>
> In original: "Sollte man mit einem Satz und einem Minimum an Ausdrücken
> sagen, was das 20. Jahrhundert, neben seinen inkommensurablen Leistungen in
> den Künsten, an unverwechselbar eigentümlichen Merkmalen in die Geschichte
> der Zivilisation eingebracht hat, so könnte die Antwort wohl mit drei
> Kriterien auskommen. Wer die Originalität dieser Epoche verstehen will,
> muss in Betracht ziehen: die Praxis des Terrorismus, das Konzept des
> Produktdesigns und den Umweltgedanken."
>
> Sloterdijk's German is ten times better than Stremmel's.
>
>
>
>
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> 2015-04-23 11:27 GMT+02:00 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>
>> Terror from the Air
>> By Peter Sloterdijk
>> Translated by  Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran
>>
>>
>> According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a
>> specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Northern France.
>> That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate
>> indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and
>> practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary's vital
>> function first. Using poison gas signaled the passage from classical
>> war to terrorism. This terror from the air inaugurated an era in which
>> the main idea was no longer to target the enemy's body, but their
>> environment. From then on, what would be attacked in wartime as well
>> as in peacetime would be the very conditions necessary for life.
>>
>> This kind of terrorism became the matrix of modern and postmodern war,
>> from World War I's toxic gas to the Nazi Zyklon B used in Auschwitz,
>> from the bombing of Dresden to the attack on the World Trade Center.
>> Sloterdijk goes on to describe the offensive of modern aesthetics,
>> aesthetic terrorism from Surrealism to Malevich—an "atmo-terrorism" in
>> the arts that parallels the assault on environment that had originated
>> in warfare.
>>
>> http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/terror-air
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>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > http://aphelis.net/century-atmospheric-warfare-1915-2015/
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