A Century of Atmospheric Warfare: 1915-2015

Fri Apr 24 02:01:41 CDT 2015

There are three important books by Sloterdijk which haven't been 
translated into English yet:

* Eurotaoismus. Zur Kritik der politischen Kinetik, 1989.
* Weltfremdheit, 1993.
* Nicht gerettet. Versuche nach Heidegger, 2001.

And then he edited, together with Thomas Macho, an excellent reader on 
Gnostic thinking in antiquity and the modern world. It contains 
religion, philosophy, and the arts. This wonderful book is called 
"Weltrevolution der Seele" (World Revolution of the Soul).

http://petersloterdijk.net/werk/weltrevolution-der-seele/

On 24.04.2015 05:25, Dave Monroe wrote:
> Sorry, didn't mean to cause any hassle here (never have, but ...).  I
> haven't yet been able to afford (money, time) Bubbles et al., but do
> have/did read this, @ least (also, Critique of Cynical Reason, way
> back when it was 1st translated here, + that [uncharacteristically]
> slim Nietzsche book [still circling around the Derrida one]).  Still
> trying to get to (which I've name dropped here, @ least; do have copy,
> @ least)http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745647685  ...
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de>  wrote:
>> No, I meant your German.
>> And the middle name I gave you refers to the small quantity of your
>> Sloterdijk reading.
>> So what's this about?
>>
>> Certainly not about the content of Sloterdijk's thinking in which you never
>> showed any interest.
>>
>> There are parts of his work - the idea of replacing taxes by charity on a
>> larger scale, or his Nietzschean glimpses at the biotechnological breeding
>> of humans ("Regeln für den Menschenpark") - which make me frown, but
>> Sloterdijk's overall project - to add something like Being and Space to
>> Heidegger's Being and Time (and thereby to reconcile Heidegger's thinking
>> with modern urbanity) - is important and exiting. Reading Sloterdijk makes
>> you smarter. And it's fun!
>>
>> To question Sloterdijk's competence for language makes no sense to me. You
>> don't have to enjoy each and every neologism he creates, but the enormous
>> creativity of the language is one of the reasons that Sloterdijk is also
>> read among architects and artists. And - in contrary to someone like
>> Habermas - he is heavily debated in France. In  the year 2005, Sloterdijk
>> got honored with the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose. It's the most
>> important prize for scientific prose in the language we call Deutsch.
>>
>> http://www.deutscheakademie.de/de/auszeichnungen/sigmund-freud-preis/peter-sloterdijk/urkundentext
>>
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>>
>> On 23.04.2015 15:33, jochen stremmel wrote:
>>> 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. <
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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