/lit/ - Literature

>>15285402
False. Sloterdijk does to space what Heidegger did for time.

>>15032291
>Has there been anyone of note since Nietzsche who has attempted to think the Übermensch and has actually improved upon Nietzschean thought?

>>12300971
>Sloterdijk
God I wish, but no-one on /lit/ reads enough for Slots to become our big mood meme.

>>11844183
Read 'Nietzche Apostle' if you don't believe me.

>>11653350
>Can someone elaborate?
My interpretation, putting it as simply as possible, is just that for the most part 'self-protecting' will be the primary preoccupation of the inhabitants of spheres ("society"/cultures).

>examples
AI takes blue collar jobs, therefore, truckers receive a pay compensation (maybe UBI) as a payout - but specifically as a protecting insurance.
Immigration brings crime, therefore, anti-immigration parties - but motivated by 'self-protection.'

I think Sloterdijk is arguing that these style of pushes are more likely now rather than the previous 20th century style of 'social "revolution" because it is moral'-style arguments.

>>11653763
>isn't it the basic idea of trying to extend a kind of therapeutic form of capitalism and its attendant psycho-politics across the entire world?
I don't think Sloterdijk is making a normative claim, more that he is observing that the West is both focused on self-pampering but also that Western wealth has formed in some a moral impulse to invite others to join us in the 'realm of pampering.'

> sloterdijk is referring to are the reactive desires for people to want to get from the state a means of insuring them against the guilt, anxiety, boredom or dread that come from a totalizing psychological domestication under a super-managerial state
Yes, I would interpret it more as 'the inhabitants of the West as regarding part of a sphere's responsibility to emanate self-reassuring waves of information' as a partner to the self-hypnosis of 'cultural' reproduction (Humanity's "chronic need for illusions" - Foams p811). Also, I don't think Sloterdijk regards "tranquility engineering," as you put it, as unsuccessful or imposed, more as a type of Western success that morally justifies the role of the state-as-part-of-the-sphere :

"I would go so far as to argue that with the start of pedagogical modernity in Romanticism, and fully with the entry into the quasi-total allomothering state of the twentieth century (augmented by a new media environment with a protective-pampering, animating and passivizing tendency), a historically unprecedented psychosocial ecology of the (allo)mother-child field emerged. - Foams p748

Or to put it crudely: the state is your mummy now.

>>11599974
I found Sloterdijk pretty heavy going, only made it because I could google most of the bits I didn't understand.