In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization by Sloterdijk Peter

Author:Sloterdijk, Peter [Sloterdijk, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780745647685
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-10-15T22:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 See Peter Sloterdijk, ‘The Time of the Crime of the Monstrous: On the Philosophical Justification of the Artificial’, trans. Wieland Hoban, in Sloterdijk Now, ed. Stuart Elden (Cambridge: Polity, 2012), pp. 165–81. Martin Albrow's aforementioned suggestion is interesting in this context: to consider the period between 1492 and 1945 (or until the climate conference in Rio de Janeiro) ‘modernity’ or the ‘age of globalization’ with equal validity, setting this apart from the ‘global age’ of the incipient transnational world form, for which the heroic phase of globalization created the necessary conditions. If one understands globality in this way as a result and fait accompli of globalization, the ‘post-historical’ structure of this ‘global age’ we have entered stands out – that is, a shift of emphasis from history to news, and from a reliance on regional pasts to a reliance on trans-regional futures. Only then does Albrow's playful motto – ‘Forget modernity!’ – become understandable, if not quite acceptable. See Albrow, The Global Age.

2 François Laplatine & Alexis Nouss, Métissages. De Arcimboldo à Zombi (Paris: Pauvert, 2001).

3 See Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem & Helen R. Lane (London & New York: Continuum, 2004), p. 244: ‘The only universal history is a history of contingency.’

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