Terror from the air
"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 longe…
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- Full title :Terror from the air / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran.
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.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed by the MIT Press, Semiotext(e)
- Place of Publication:Los Angeles
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
Notes
Originally published in 2002 as Luftbeben by Editions Suhrkamp, Frankfurt.
The Physical Object
- Description:111 pages ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781584350729, 1584350725
- oclc:ocn262881420
- LC Classification:HV6431
- Dewey Decimal:363.32509/04
Table of Contents
Gas warfare -- or: the atmoterrorsit model --- Increasing explication --- Air/Condition --- Outlook.
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