Sphere Effects: A History of Peter Sloterdijk's Political Architectures

In: World political science, Band 7, Heft 1

Abstract

This article discusses recent work by Peter Sloterdijk, who has developed a phenomenological analysis of human spaces. The aim of my contribution is to put this spatial theorization in relation with political constructions. Sloterdijk's undertaking presents itself as a long history of the cosmological and architectural elements that shape the very spaces of human-production. He also puts it forward as a new pathway for understanding the human topos which has been subsumed for too long by the metaphysics of the 'beyond' and which is currently liquefied by contemporary processes of mobilizing capital.