Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherological Acrobatics: An Exercise in Introduction
- 2 Foamy Business: On the Organizational Politics of Atmospheres
- 3 “Transgenous Philosophy”: Post-humanism, Anthropotechnics and the Poetics of Natal Difference
- 4 Disinhibition, Subjectivity and Pride. Or: Guess Who Is Looking?: Peter Sloterdijk’s reconstruction of ‘thymotic’ qualities, psychoanalysis and the question of spectatorship
- 5 Sloterdijk and the Question of an Aesthetic
- 6 Uneasy Places. Monotheism, Christianity, and the Dynamic of the Unlikely in Sloterdijk’s Work – Context and Debate
- 7 The Attention Regime: On Mass Media and the Information Society
- 8 In the Beginning was the Accident: The Crystal Palace as a Cultural Catastrophe and the Emergence of the Cosmic Misfit: A critical approach to Peter Sloterdijk’s Weltinnenraum des Kapitals vs. Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s Notes from the underground
- 9 A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design with Special Attention to Peter Sloterdijk
- 10 Sloterdijk and the Question of Action
- 11 The Space of Global Capitalism and its Imaginary Imperialism: An Interview with Peter Sloterdijk
- Contributors
- Index
Lessons for Life
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherological Acrobatics: An Exercise in Introduction
- 2 Foamy Business: On the Organizational Politics of Atmospheres
- 3 “Transgenous Philosophy”: Post-humanism, Anthropotechnics and the Poetics of Natal Difference
- 4 Disinhibition, Subjectivity and Pride. Or: Guess Who Is Looking?: Peter Sloterdijk’s reconstruction of ‘thymotic’ qualities, psychoanalysis and the question of spectatorship
- 5 Sloterdijk and the Question of an Aesthetic
- 6 Uneasy Places. Monotheism, Christianity, and the Dynamic of the Unlikely in Sloterdijk’s Work – Context and Debate
- 7 The Attention Regime: On Mass Media and the Information Society
- 8 In the Beginning was the Accident: The Crystal Palace as a Cultural Catastrophe and the Emergence of the Cosmic Misfit: A critical approach to Peter Sloterdijk’s Weltinnenraum des Kapitals vs. Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s Notes from the underground
- 9 A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design with Special Attention to Peter Sloterdijk
- 10 Sloterdijk and the Question of Action
- 11 The Space of Global Capitalism and its Imaginary Imperialism: An Interview with Peter Sloterdijk
- Contributors
- Index
Summary
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
(T.S. Eliot)Utrecht. My first encounter with this word was on University Avenue in Berkeley. There is an art supplies store called Utrecht, and each time I passed by, I would stare at the name and wonder where it came from and what it meant. But of course, as with many other little things that catch our attention for a moment, I would always forget to research it afterwards. Thus, it remained just a foreign word to me – until last summer, when I met a Dutch exchange student at my university. When I asked him where in the Netherlands he was from, he said: “Utrecht.” The name had a very familiar ring to it, but it was only much later, when I was once again passing by the art supplies store, that I made the connection. Now that I am in Utrecht, I like to think of the name of that store as a sign – as if I was meant to come to Utrecht some day, and that therefore that name had always caught my attention back in Berkeley.
It is hard to sum up my life in Utrecht in a few paragraphs, but looking back at the past three months, certain days stand out. I think that only by telling you about those days will I be able to get at least somewhat close to capturing what my experience in Utrecht has been like.
It was in mid-January when we went to climb the Dom Tower. A cold gloomy day, yet we all felt warm and fuzzy inside – as is always the case when you are in good company. Our tour guide led us up the steep stairs of the tower, offering interesting historical tidbits all along the way. As we reached the very top of the tower, the scenic cityscape unfolded before us: the Dom church, the canals, the cute little rooftops, and the horizon, blurred by the thick moist fog. We stood there, a group of smiley faces gazing down and admiring the beautiful view stretching before us.
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- In Medias ResPeter Sloterdijk's Spherological Poetics of Being, pp. 112 - 116Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2012