Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. I WORLD OF SOUND
   1. La musique retrouvée
      1. Demonic Territory
      2. In the Curvature of the World
      3. Departure to the Musical Treasure Island: Caliban’s Legacy
      4. Notes
   2. Remembrance of Beautiful Politics
      1. Notes
   3. Where Are We When We Hear Music?
      1. In the Journey Out and in the Journey Back
      2. In the Percussion
      3. Notes
5. II IN THE LIGHT
   1. Clearing and Illumination: Notes on the Metaphysics, Mysticism and Politics of Light
      1. Metaphysics as Meta-Optics
      2. Clearing
      3. Light as the Guarantor that Beings are Cognizable
      4. Blinding/Bedazzlement
      5. The Passion of Light
      6. Enlightenment
      7. Artificial Lighting: Postmodern Twilight
      8. The Last Light
      9. Notes
   2. Illumination in the Black Box: On the History of Opacity
      1. Notes
6. III DESIGN
   1. The Right Tool for Power: Observations on Design as the Modernization of Competence
      1. The Thousand-Year Empire of Competence: Towards a Self-Definition of the Modern World
      2. Simulation of Sovereignty: On the Birth of Design from the Spirit of Ritual
      3. Competence as Competence in Revising: Design under the Categorical Imperative of the Consumer World
      4. Applied Art for the Ego
      5. In the Battle of the Titans
      6. Notes
   2. On the Charisma of Symbols
   3. For a Philosophy of Play
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      8. Notes
7. IV CITY AND ARCHITECTURE
   1. The City and Its Negation: An Outline of Negative Political Theory
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      11. Notes
   2. Architects Do Nothing But ‘Inside Theory’: Peter Sloterdijk in Conversation with Sabine Kraft and Nikolaus Kuhnert
      1. Explication
      2. Intimacy
      3. Insulations
      4. Dwelling Places
      5. Individuation
      6. Foam
      7. Being-in-the-World
      8. The Role of the Architect
      9. Architecture is Part of Immunity Culture
      10. Globalization
      11. Two Worlds
      12. Immunity
      13. System Elasticity
      14. Notes
   3. For a Participatory Architecture: Notes on the Art of Daniel Libeskind with Reference to Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Valéry
      1. For a New Poetry of Space
      2. Being in the Work of a Person: On the Critique of Participatory Reason
      3. Breakthrough to Multivalent Space
      4. Notes
8. V CONDITIO HUMANA
   1. Essay on the Life of the Artist: Heretics * Wastrels * Falls/Cases * Inhabitants
      1. Notes
   2. Confessions of a Loser
   3. Minima Cosmetica: An Essay on Self-Aggrandizement
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      5. Notes
9. VI MUSEUM
   1. The Museum: School of Disconcertment
      1. Otherness and Varnish
      2. The Hall of Memory of the Self and Place of Skulls of the Other
      3. Museums and Non-Museums
      4. Notes
   2. World Museum and World’s Fair
      1. Absolutely Museum-Like
      2. Museum Nausea and World Dizziness: The Museum as the Pre-School of World Estrangement
      3. The Museum as a Uterodrome
      4. The World’s Capacity for Exhibition: On Truth and Capital
      5. Notes
10. VII ART SYSTEM
    1. ‘I tell you: one must still have chaos in one’
       1. Notes
    2. Art is Folding into Itself
       1. Who is Paying for Art?
       2. The Art Exhibition as a Revelation of Creative Powers
       3. Modernization and the Increase of Arbitrariness
       4. The Victory of the Exhibition
       5. Art is Deserting the Gallery! Where is It Going?
       6. The Dawn of the Work
       7. Twilight of the Exhibition
       8. Beyond Autonomy: Lying Idle; Staying in Touch with Oneself
       9. Notes
    3. Emissaries of Violence: On the Metaphysics of Action Cinema
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       4. Notes
    4. Good-for-Nothing Returns Home or The End of an Alibi – and a Theory of the End of Art
       1. Notes
    5. Afterword: Sloterdijk and the Question of Aesthetics Peter Weibel
       1. Introductory Remarks
       2. Modernity between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment
       3. Beyond Modernity
       4. Notes
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