Splintering Spheres of Security

Peter Sloterdijk and the Contemporary Fortress City

Bibliographic Data

ID4475795
AuthorsF Klauser (0000-0003-3383-3570, Durham University, corresponding author), Francisco R Klauser (Durham University)
Year2010
Volume28
Issue2
Pages326-340
Publication date2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d14608
OpenAlexW1974301084
LanguageEN
Citations received56
References cited37

The paper brings together Peter Sloterdijk's 'theory of spheres' with urban studies literature on the forms and effects of the contemporary urban security agenda, in order to investigate the relationships between the material and (atmo)spherical dimensions of the splintering spaces of security in the contemporary fortress city. The paper hence seeks to conceptualise securitisation strategies not only as spatially articulated measures of surveillance and separation but also as sphere-creating forces in their own right. In this view the paper places particular emphasis on Sloterdijk's conceptualisation of 'foam', thus elucidating the contemporary fortress city as a highly fragmented, polyspherical patchwork of more or less hermetically enclosed and purified security spheres. These spheres are bound together by relations of cofragility and reciprocal implications, and are to different degrees oriented towards the more or less economically motivated collection and management of co-isolated individuals

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Fortress (chess · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Global Security and Public Health · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance

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