Description
Starting April 27th, 2017
(You may join after this date as well, if you’d like to catch up.)
Join our reading group for Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophical trilogy, Spheres, beginning with Volume I: Bubbles. This reading group will meet every two weeks via Zoom video conference on Thursdays from 12–1:15 pm Mountain time, from April 27h to August 17th (9 sessions). You will also get access to our dedicated discussion channel on InfiniteConversations.com.
John David Ebert and Marco V Morelli will host and facilitate the discussions, which will involve a close reading of the text along with in-depth, collaborative and creative dialogue that explores the meaning of the work for our contemporary moment and lives.
Here is John and Marco’s introduction to the book and group:
Note: This reading group is included with Cosmos Beta membership, which give access to all our reading groups and other cultural activities. If you sign up for a Cosmos membership, you do not need to add this item to your cart.
An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk’s three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger’s Being and Time. Rejecting the century’s predominant philosophical focus on temporality, Sloterdijk, a self-described “student of the air,” reinterprets the history of Western metaphysics as an inherently spatial and immunological project, from the discovery of self (bubble) to the exploration of world (globe) to the poetics of plurality (foam). Exploring macro- and micro-space from the Greek agora to the contemporary urban apartment, Sloterdijk is able to synthesize, with immense erudition, the spatial theories of Aristotle, René Descartes, Gaston Bachelard, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille into a morphology of shared, or multipolar, dwelling–identifying the question of being as one bound up with the aerial technology of architectonics and anthropogenesis.
John David Ebert is a cultural critic and author of 19 books, including Art After Metaphysics, The Age of Catastrophe and The New Media Invasion. He is also the author of the Scene-by-Scene series, the most recent of which are Videodrome Scene-by-Scene and Blade Runner Scene-by-Scene. His websites are 
Marco V Morelli is the founder and CCO of 
