Language is an instrument for dealing with the details of reality. All of our words, along with the ways we string them together, contain or reflect concepts — signs or semiotic constructs – by which we refer to elements of a dynamic world. Because they are essentially pragmatic and context-specific, if we scrutinize any of […]
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Why religion isn’t (coherent)
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged global catastrophe, global crisis, Peter Sloterdijk, practice, religion, religious studies on February 29, 2024 | 4 Comments »
“Trust your (foamy) immune system”
Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged actor-network theory, anti-vaccination movement, co-immunism, co-immunology, COVID-19, Foams, immunity, immunological theory, networks, Peter Sloterdijk, public health, Spheres on August 2, 2021 | 7 Comments »
“Trust your immune system.” One often hears this slogan, or some version of it, from people who are against vaccination. But what does it mean, or what should it mean for an intensely social species like ours, living in a microbiologically fluid and creative environment like Earth’s biosphere? We can only trust something if we […]
Creation of the world in seven days
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged apocalypse, creation story, Day Six, Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch, holy triamazikamno, octave doctor, Peter Sloterdijk on September 15, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
On day one, I poked an eye open. And shut it tight. On day two, I tried again, looked around, grasped for something, clutched it tight. Then I ate it. On day three (a lot of things happened between days two and three), I started thinking.