Houston, We Have a Problem. Sloterdijk and the Anthropocene

Abstract

Island, raft, bell, greenhouse, hot-air balloon, cruise ship, spaceship: These are some of the metaphors mobilized by Peter Sloterdijk to describe the spaces within which the human being is born and reproduces itslef, from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. The aim of this contribution is to reconstruct these passages and, above all, to analyze how the metaphor of the spaceship succeeds in describing some aspects of our current condition, while risking leaving others in the shade.

Keywords

• sloterdijk
• anthropocene
• foam
• spaceship
• freedom