Modernity, Sloterdijk and Private Semiologies

Arminius · October 2, 2015, 5:56pm

Yes. It is a continuation of Heidegger’s “Sein und Zeit” (“Being and Time”).

Sloterdijk’s Sphärologie (logic of spheres) is the method that increases the spaciousness of the world very much, while the usual discourses of the globalization decreases the world disgustfully.

Arminius · January 3, 2016, 6:02am

Happy new year.

The following book should be translated soon, or you read in German: Die schrecklichen Kinder der Neuzeit (my translation: The awful children of the modern era) - by Peter Sloterdijk, 2014.

And the follwing video I already posted in your other thread refers to the said book:

Ultimate_Philosophy · January 4, 2016, 12:49am

Primal Rage:

According to Sloterdijk, the contemporary age is an age of foam, i.e., a multiplicity of people, who rub up against each other with their own private semiologies. The metaphysical age was a bubble, i.e., God as the transcendent signified, who encased the Earth, like a dome. This divine macro-sphere provided a psychological immunization to the Lacanian ’ real '. But now, since all the grand meta-narratives and transcendent signifieds have been deconstructed, in the contemporary age, we are in a state of existential nakedness, exposed to the Lacanian ’ real '. The grand bubble has popped and now what remains is foam, the multiplicity of semio-spheres, which contain their own idiosyncratic logic and meaning. Understanding this macro/micro symbolism is conducive to the understanding of contemporary art. Much of modern art is extremely perplexing and ambiguous, even absurd - it isn’t confluent with the metaphysical grand narratives and transcendent signifieds. The deconstruction of the transcendent signified has allowed room for play, as Derrida would say - the signifiers can now play around and create their own semiologies. Once you understand the personal bubble of the contemporary artist, his logic and meaning, you can begin to become part of his semio-sphere.

This sounds like new-age anita sarkisian feminist speak. Point out the posts pertaining to consciousness so I can eat this topic, without the barbs.