Different Atmospheres

Of Sloterdijk, China, and Site

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4476591
AutoresNigel Thrift (0000-0001-9698-6289, University House, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 8UW, England, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen27
Número1
Páginas119-138
Fecha de publicación2009-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d6808
OpenAlexW2053541485
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36
Referencias citadas45

This paper begins with an appreciation and critique of the remarkable work of Peter Sloterdijk which makes it possible to open up a number of issues concerning philosophy and its relation to the social sciences and humanities, most particularly concerning the role of evidence and the pervasiveness of Eurocentrism. In particular, the paper argues that it is possible to think of different ways of raising the spectre of space which are as plausible as the account provided by Sloterdijk's spatial philosophy/philosophy of space. Navigating by the compass of classical Chinese civilisation, I proceed to sketch out a different diagnosis from that of Sloterdijk of how space is being materialised in contemporary Euro-American cultures. Drawing on logographic traditions of writing the world, I argue that, rather than describing what is now being produced by capitalism and other actors as a warehoused world full of lost souls, it is possible to think of different means of describing how the future is being scripted

Art · Capitalism · China · Chinese philosophy · Civilization · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Sketch · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism