Cohabitating in the Globalised World: Peter Sloterdijk's Global Foams and Bruno Latour's Cosmopolitics

Morin, Marie-Ève

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“…32 Hence, Heidegger's ontology of dwelling is based on the immanent idea that the dwelling place houses and encloses man's life, 33 in short, it is a manifestation of 'Interior building'. 34 In addition, Heidegger also stresses the importance of poetry in dwelling practices. "Poetry is what really lets us dwell".…”

Section: Nests Of Beingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands

Gielis

Houtum

2012

Geopolitics

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It is almost a truism to say that people increasingly dwell in a transnational context, that is, in-between societal systems and together with multiple nationalities. Increasingly, people are living in a different nation in which they were born. The nation-states people dwell in cannot be equated with territorial container-boxes anymore, if this ever could. The uniform and straight lines in the sand, that borders once were thought to be, are now better understood as a complex choreography of border lines in multiplied lived spaces. This article zooms in on a specific kind of dwelling with multiple borders. It tries to get a conceptual hold of contemporary dwelling places of short-distance migrants across a EU inner border, in this case the Dutch-German border. In recent years, much facilitated by EU cross-border cohesion policies, a substantial number of Dutch people have bought or built a house just across the border in Germany. This has created an interesting new phenomenon of cross-border dwelling, in which the new location of the house is just across the border and the living largely still goes on in the country of origin. This living in two nations at the same time at such a short distance is what we wish to understand better conceptually in this article. We argue that two fundamentally opposed philosophical dwelling conceptualisations could be distinguished. On the one hand one could distinguish a philosophical view in which dwelling is a form of a Heideggerian nest, where people open a space of being, an intimate and secure bordered place, sheltering 797 798 Ruben Gielis and Henk van Houtum themselves for the outside world. On the other hand then, a philosophical view could be distinguished in which dwelling is driven by a Deleuzian need to free oneself from a binding b/order of home, through a constant be-coming and estrangement, hence by constantly othering oneself. We argue that in order to understand the borderscape dwellings of Dutch migrants in German borderlands, there is a need to relate these two ends of the dwelling continuum. The argument that we bring forward is that a borderline necessarily moves between total (self-)imprisonment and total escapist openness, making borders in an ontological sense intrinsicially and unavoidably always a shifting line in the sand. In our view, Peter Sloterdijk's imaginative Sphären ( Spheres) trilogy could help as a conceptual stimulus to create that much needed bridge between the bordering efforts of nesting and the debordering desire to escape from it. Using Sloterdijk's spherical concepts, the dwelling can be seen as a place which is constantly changing from a secure bubble-like place into a multidimensional foam-like place and back again. With this spherical understanding of the house we argue that this conceptual 'spheric' stimulus could help to rethink the complex and ambivalent character of cross-border dwelling places in an increasingly transnational world.

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Section: Nests Of Beingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands

Gielis

Houtum

2012

Geopolitics

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“…While universalism has become a much less hegemonic, more pluralistic concept in the last 20 years, relativism has also become less 'irresponsible' (Morin 2009 ). While universalism has become a much less hegemonic, more pluralistic concept in the last 20 years, relativism has also become less 'irresponsible' (Morin 2009 ).…”

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“…As a more pluralistic version of universalism, cosmopolitanism can still be understood as less judgmental (Morin 2009 ). This is in line with the eighteenthcentury associations the term held, when 'cosmopolitan' indicated:…”

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Nanotechnology and Ethical Governance in the European Union and China

Dalton‐Brown¹

2015

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“…As de Beistegui (2007:18) suggests, instead of bounded territorialism or cosmopolitanism, such “citizenship on earth” could perhaps be translated into something like “geopolitanism” (cf. Morin 2009; Turnbull 2006). 4…”

Section: Resistance Of Finitude: Non‐metaphysical Dwelling In the Earmentioning

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Dwelling in the Sites of Finitude: Resisting the Violence of the Metaphysical Globe

Joronen

2011

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In this paper Martin Heidegger's notions about dwelling in the sites of finitude and "power-free" (Macht-los) "letting-be" (Gelassenheit) are explored as fundamental possibilities for resisting the ontological violence posed by global capitalism, the planetary outcome of the metaphysical condition Heidegger calls the "machination" (Machenschaft). Beginning from the planetary machination-the emergence of the flexible and circularly functioning power of calculative intelligibility-resistance is understood ontologically and hence as a radical critique of power as a consummation of the history of the metaphysical constitution of being. The paper culminates in a discussion of Heidegger's view on the awakening of the "other beginning" of the abyssal "Event" of being, a groundless "time-space-play" capable of constituting an alternative modality of relations no longer based upon the calculative functions of power but upon groundless thought and non-violent dwelling in the earth-sites of finite being.

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Cohabitating in the Globalised World: Peter Sloterdijk's Global Foams and Bruno Latour's Cosmopolitics

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands

Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands

Nanotechnology and Ethical Governance in the European Union and China

Dwelling in the Sites of Finitude: Resisting the Violence of the Metaphysical Globe

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