This looks really fascinating and I will be taking some time to read it. It seems to cover ideas that I have been thinking and writing about so I am looking forward to spending time with this.
Sloterdijk’s central metaphor of "spheres"—the psychic and physical bubbles we build for comfort—is an ideological concept which obscures the true engine of planetary crisis. It individualizes and psychologizes what is fundamentally a social and economic problem born of a specific historically determined system. The Capitalocene is not the age of Man; it is the age of Capital. The "thin, brutalist sphere" of atmospheric pollution and ecological collapse was not built by an abstract "humanity." It was engineered, funded, and violently imposed by the capitalist class in its relentless, logic-driven pursuit of accumulation.
The millions of climate refugees, the poisoned communities in sacrifice zones, the workers in lithium mines and Amazon warehouses—they are not equal signatories to a failed "atmospheric contract." They are the primary victims of the Capitalocene's extractive logic. To frame this as a collective human failure ("Anthropocene") is to absolve the actual perpetrators—the fossil fuel corporations, the financiers, the imperialist states that wage war for resources—of all responsibility. It is a philosophy that, in true bourgeois fashion, blames the abstract "human condition" to spare the very specific capitalist world-ecology.
We have to make the choice to keep on dreaming that we are a the center of life and hitting towards self-destruction or accepting that life is about life, and we are just little part of it and start act in consequence
“Do we finally take radical responsibility for our own design, for the future of our species?”
Mihaly C. “The Art of the Long View” comes to mind.
This looks really fascinating and I will be taking some time to read it. It seems to cover ideas that I have been thinking and writing about so I am looking forward to spending time with this.
Sloterdijk’s central metaphor of "spheres"—the psychic and physical bubbles we build for comfort—is an ideological concept which obscures the true engine of planetary crisis. It individualizes and psychologizes what is fundamentally a social and economic problem born of a specific historically determined system. The Capitalocene is not the age of Man; it is the age of Capital. The "thin, brutalist sphere" of atmospheric pollution and ecological collapse was not built by an abstract "humanity." It was engineered, funded, and violently imposed by the capitalist class in its relentless, logic-driven pursuit of accumulation.
The millions of climate refugees, the poisoned communities in sacrifice zones, the workers in lithium mines and Amazon warehouses—they are not equal signatories to a failed "atmospheric contract." They are the primary victims of the Capitalocene's extractive logic. To frame this as a collective human failure ("Anthropocene") is to absolve the actual perpetrators—the fossil fuel corporations, the financiers, the imperialist states that wage war for resources—of all responsibility. It is a philosophy that, in true bourgeois fashion, blames the abstract "human condition" to spare the very specific capitalist world-ecology.
Read more: https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobpointon/p/against-philosopheasys-spherical?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=64iqzy
We have to make the choice to keep on dreaming that we are a the center of life and hitting towards self-destruction or accepting that life is about life, and we are just little part of it and start act in consequence
Anxiety inducing, but, not only plausible but probable!
Thought provoking in these times!