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"The twentieth century consists primarily of the activation of the real in a passion for technological and economic antigravitation. The result is the slow but unavoidable emancipation of Western civilization from “the dogmatic opportunism of the real as power-of-the-base-from-below” toward “a free-moving position intermediate between the heavy and antigravitational tendencies.” Economically, the ending of scarcity (Entknappung) and, technologically, the exoneration (Entlastung) of the burdens of human life by the intrusion of new motive forces into human propulsive arrangements have led to the death throes (“Agonie”) of the belief in the base/superstructure division and the radicalism or fundamentalism derived from it. If the twentieth century can still inspire us today, this is because its reprogramming of the pitch of existence (Daseinsstimmung) paves the way for a “critique of extremist reason,” a “post-Marxist theory of enrichment,” a “new interpretation of dreams,” and a “general economy” of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. (“What Happened in the Twentieth Century? En Route to a Critique of Extremist Reason, Inaugural Lecture, Emmanuel Levinas Chair, Strasbourg, March 4, 2005,” Cultural Politics: An International Journal 3.3 (Nov. 2007): 327-55, 1 Jan. 2010)"
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Peter Sloterdijk in English « Te Ipu Pakore: The Broken Vessel
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