Houston, We Have a Problem. Sloterdijk and the Anthropocene

Mirko Alagna

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14786

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Mirko Alagna University of Firenze

Mirko Alagna is researcher of Political Philosophy at the University of Florence. PhD at the University of Trento, was DAAD fellow at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He focused on the thought of Max Weber, Hans Blumenberg, Hannah Arendt and Peter Sloterdijk. Author of “Sazi da morire” (AlboVersorio 2012), “Atlanti. Immagini del mondo e forme della politica in Max Weber” (Donzelli 2017), “Superficialismo radicale” (ETS 2021, with L. Mazzone) and “Peter Sloterdijk” (DeriveApprodi 2021). He has also published articles in several Italian and international journals.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14786

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Sloterdijk, Anthropocene, Foam, Spaceship, Freedom

Abstract

Island, raft, bell, greenhouse, hot-air balloon, cruise ship, spaceship: These are some of the metaphors mobilized by Peter Sloterdijk to describe the spaces within which the human being is born and reproduces itslef, from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. The aim of this contribution is to reconstruct these passages and, above all, to analyze how the metaphor of the spaceship succeeds in describing some aspects of our current condition, while risking leaving others in the shade.

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———. Spheres III. Foam. South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e), 2016.

———. Stress and Freedom. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2015.

———. ‘The Anthropocene – A Stage in the Process on the Margins of the Earth’s History?’ In What Happened in the 20th Century?, 8–58. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018.

———. ‘The Ocean Experiment: From Nautical Globalization to a General Ecology’. In What Happened in the 20th Century?, 81–103. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018.

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———. You Must Change Your Life. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2013.

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