Research Catalog

Title

Terror from the air / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran.

Author

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-

Publication

Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Patton, Amy.
• Corcoran, Steve.

Description

111 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in Northern France. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary's vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the passage from classical war to terrorism. This terror from the air inaugurated an era in which the main idea was no longer to target the enemy's body, but their environment. From then on, what would be attacked in wartime as well as in peacetime would be the very conditions necessary for life. This kind of terrorism became the matrix of modern and postmodern war, from World War I's toxic gas to the Nazi Zyklon B used in Auschwitz, from the bombing of Dresden to the attack on the World Trade Center. Sloterdijk goes on to describe the offensive of modern aesthetics, aesthetic terrorism from Surrealism to Malevich -- an "atmo-terrorism" in the arts that parallels the assault on environment that had originated in warfare." -- Back cover.

Series Statement

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Uniform Title

• Luftbeben. English
• Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Alternative Title

Luftbeben.

Subject

• Terrorism > History > 20th century
• Terrorism
• Violence

Note

• Originally published in 2002 as Luftbeben by Editions Suhrkamp, Frankfurt.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from German.

Contents

Gas warfare -- or: the atmoterrorsit model --- Increasing explication --- Air/Condition --- Outlook.

Call Number

JFE 15-963

ISBN

• 9781584350729 (pbk.)
• 1584350725 (pbk.)

LCCN

2009278497

OCLC

262881420

Author

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-

Title

Terror from the air / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran.

Imprint

Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2009.

Series

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Translated from German.

Added Author

Patton, Amy.

Corcoran, Steve.

Other Form:

Online version: Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947- Luftbeben. English. Terror from the air. Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2009 (OCoLC)567923795

Online version: Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947- Luftbeben. English. Terror from the air. Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2009 (OCoLC)608091550

Research Call Number

JFE 15-963