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Infinite Mobilization (Hardcover)
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Infinite Mobilization (Hardcover)
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The core of what we refer to as 'the project of modernity' is the
idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under
their control, and hence it is based on a 'kinetic utopia' the
movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our
plans for it. But as soon as the kinetic utopia of modernity is
exposed, its seemingly stable foundation cracks open and new
problems appear: things don't happen according to plan because as
we actualize our plans, we set in motion other things that we
didn't want as unintended side-effects. We watch with mounting
unease as the self-perpetuating side-effects of modern progress
overshadow our plans, as a foreign movement breaks off from the
very core of the modern project supposedly guided by reason and
slips away from us, spinning out of control. What looked like a
steady march towards freedom turns out to be a slide into an
uncontrollable and catastrophic syndrome of perpetual mobilization.
And precisely because so much comes about through our actions,
these developments turn out to have explosive consequences for our
self-understanding, as we begin to realize that, so far from
bringing the world under our control, we are instead the agents of
our own destruction. In this brilliant and insightful book
Sloterdijk lays out the elements of a new critical theory of
modernity understood as a critique of political kinetics, shifting
the focus of critical theory from production to mobilization and
shedding new light on a world facing the growing risk of humanly
induced catastrophe.
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