Sloterdijk’s 2002 lecture recently published by Semiotexte is worth reading for us. It is a short version of his extensive multi-volume “Spheres” series. I post a few quotes here for people to comment on. The bulk of the lecture is a kind of history of gaswarfare on both humans and “pests”.
Peter Sloterdijk Terror from the Air
NY: Semiotext(e), 2009, (orig. 2002)
“Anybody wanting to grasp the originality of the era has to consider: the practice of terrorism, the concept of product design, and environmental thinking. With the first, enemy interaction was established on a post-militaristic basis; with the second, functionalism was enabled to re-connect to the world of perceptions; and with the third, phenomena of life and knowledge became more profoundly linked than ever before. (9)
Taken together, all three mark acceleration in ‘explication’. In other words; the revealing-inclusion of the background givens underlying manifest operations. (9)
…the introduction of the environment into the battle between adversaries. (13)
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