Main entry:

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

111 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Semiotext(e) foreign agents series

Notes:
Originally published in 2002 as Luftbeben by Editions Suhrkamp, Frankfurt.
Includes bibliographical references.
Gas warfare -- or: the atmoterrorsit model --- Increasing explication --- Air/Condition --- Outlook.
Translated from German.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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.

ISBN:

9781584350729 (pbk.)
1584350725 (pbk.)

Subject:

Terrorism History 20th century.
Terrorisme Histoire 20e siècle.
89.83 warfare.
Terrorism.
Nerve gas.
Mass murders.
Terrorism historia 1900-talet.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Patton, Amy.
Corcoran, Steve.
Patton, Amy. translator.
Corcoran, Steve translator.
Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295968
Call No.: BIB 242349
Status: Available