Category Archives: Peter Sloterdijk

25 research talks in 2013 – with links to audio versions

The talk in Halifax at ArcticNet was the 25th research talk in a really busy year. (Links in what follows are to audio recordings, where available). I gave talks on the Shakespearean territories project at the University of York, Aberystwyth University, Memorial University of Newfoundland … Continue reading

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Books received – Foucault, Anderson, Sloterdijk, Geographica Helvetica

The latest Foucault lecture course La société punitive; Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle; Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State (the only one of my ten books that stayed with me that I didn’t actually own); and the new issue of Geographica … Continue reading

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Campbell and Sitze, Biopolitics: A Reader – introduction available online

This looks a useful resource – Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, Biopolitics; A Reader. The introduction is available online here. This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social … Continue reading

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Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle forthcoming

Forthcoming with Semiotext(e), translated by Steve Corcoran, Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle. For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a “catastrophe in the history of language”—a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical declaration of … Continue reading

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Books received

Two reissues of Foucault books, Joshua Barkan’s Corporate Sovereignty, David Farrell Krell’s Derrida and our Animal Others, Sloterdijk’s In the World Interior of Capital, and Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway.

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Steve Mentz on Sloterdijk

English Professor Steve Mentz has an interesting post on how Sloterdijk relates to his book-in-progress Shipwreck and the Ecology of Globalization. I really enjoyed his earlier book At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, so looking forward to his work on this question. … Continue reading

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Adam Kirsch on Sloterdijk in the New Republic

Adam Kirsch discusses some of the recent Sloterdijk translations in the New Republic – thanks to Mark George for the link.

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Sloterdijk reviewed

In the New Republic and Reviews in Cultural Theory.

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Keith Ansell-Pearson reviews Sloterdijk

Keith Ansell-Pearson reviews Sloterdijk’s The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice and You Must Change your Life in the LA Review of Books – thanks to Rory Rowan for the link.

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Sloterdijk Now reviewed

As far as I know, this is the first review of Sloterdijk Now – in German Studies Review by Jeffrey Champlin (requires subscription). Here’s a couple of excerpts: This volume, Sloterdijk Now, succeeds as a compact and accessible introduction to the work … Continue reading

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