worship of transparency,
attached at its very roots to
the cybernetic hypothesis.
That the cybernetic vision of
the world is an abstract
machine, a mystical fable, a
cold eloquence which
continually escapes multiple
bodies, gestures, words…But it is possible to envision that there could be, as happened in Genoa in July 2001, panic to a degree sufficient to fuck up the cybernetic programming and pass through various social groups/milieus, panic that would go beyond the annihil…civilization have as a precondition the absence or even exclusion of the panic element, to the extent that it must be built on the basis of expectations, repetitions, security and institutions?" Sloterdijk counters that "it is only thanks t…
Peter Sloterdijk
philosopher · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Sloterdijk appears in these readings as a theorist of panic and its relationship to social order, arguing that civilization requires proximity to panic experiences rather than their exclusion. His work is invoked to complicate cybernetic rationalism's claims to total transparency and control—suggesting that affect, embodied chaos, and the unpredictable dimensions of crowds present irreducible remainders that escape the abstract machine of information theory. He enables the course's central tension between systems that claim to manage everything and the human, affective, and social dimensions that persistently exceed those systems.
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