(2)
‘Sloterdijk wants to emphasise spatiality as the determining ontological characteristic of humanity’
‘A new conception of the human as inherently relational and spatially determined: a being in spheres’
‘Bubbles can be seen as an accurate morphological metaphor for the basic structure of human interaction’
‘Creating our living environment’-> ‘reconceptualising humanity through spatiality’
Sloterdijk analyses the spatial relationships between the human and its technological world through architecture, urban planning and environment
“Foams (2016) “
‘Due to the increasing level of global interconnectivity, and the rapidly rising population, we have shifted into an epoch in which all human actions are determined, and potentially limited, by their proximity to other humans’
=> metaphor of a ‘foam’ / separated by easily collapsable thin walls
(4)
Latour’s actor-network theory => ‘all entities in the world-from nanoparticles to bodies, groups, ecologies and ghosts - are constituted and reconstitued in shifting and hybrid webs of discursivee and material relations’ = meaning the social must only be seen as a relational network of actors and actants, both human and nonhuman, who act within it, and not as an object of study in itself
(5)
‘Atmospheric conditions act as the determinations of our spatial relationships with one another’
“While networks are good at describing long-distance and unexpected connections starting from local points, spheres are useful for describing local, fragile, and complex ‘atmospheric conditions’” (Latour, 2011, 471)
(6)
atmosphere=>not just the air we breathe but ‘a sphere of existence which acts as a ‘life-support’ system containing within it a multiplicity of elements of which the particulate matter in the air is merely one’
-> can relate to the climate crisis which incorporate technical, social, empirical, and ontological nature of the spheres we exist within