Spheres Reading Group
We are reading all three volumes of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy: Bubbles, Globes, and Foam.
The live-recorded conversations for Bubbles took place between April and August, 2017, and the conversations for Globes took place between October 2017 and May 2018. However, the conversation continues in our forum. A reading schedule for Foam is yet to be determined.
Books We’re Reading
Bubbles
Peter SloterdijkIf I had to place a sign of my own at the entrance to this trilogy, it would be this: let no one enter who is unwilling to praise transference and to refute loneliness. –from Bubbles An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk’s three-vo …
Globes
Peter SloterdijkAll history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion. –from Globes In Globes—the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy—the author attempts nothing less than to uncover the philosophical founda …
About the Author
Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of Critique of Cynical Reason (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War …
Archived Events
Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Live Conversation 6
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#1 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Preliminary Note and Introduction, pps. 9–81.
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 2
#2 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Preliminary Reflections and ch. 1, “Heart Operation; Or, On the Eucharistic Excess,” pps. 83–138.
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#3 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 2, “Between Faces: On the Appearance of the Interfacial Intimate Sphere,” pps. 139–206. — Readers Underground
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 4
#4 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 3, “Humans in the Magic Circle: On the Intellectual History of the Fascination with Closeness,” and Excursus 1, “Thought Transmission,” pps. 207–268. — Readers Underground
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 5
#5 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 4, “The Retreat Within the Mother: Groundwork for a Negative Gynecology,” along with the following Excursi, pps. 269–342
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 6
#6 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 5, “The Primal Companion – Requiem for Discarded Organ” as well as “Excursus 5: The Black Plantation – A Note on Trees of Life and Enlivement Machines,” pages 343–412
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 7
#7 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 6: “Soul Partitions – Angels—Twins—Doubles,” as well as Excursus 6: “Spheric Mourning – On Nobject Loss and the Difficulty of Saying What Is Missing” and Excursus 7: “On the Difference Between and Idiot and an Angel,” pps. 413-476.
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 8
#8 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 7, “The Siren Stage – On the First Sonsospheric Alliance,” as well as Excursus 8, “Illiterate Truths – A Note on Oral Fundamentalisms” and Excursus 9, “Where Lacan Starts to Go Wrong,” pps. 477–538.
Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 9
#9 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 8, “Closer to Me Than I Am Myself – A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared Inside,” Excursus 10: Matris in gremio – A Mariological Cricket,” and “Transition: On Ecstatic Immanence,” pps. 539–632.
Spheres Reading GroupGlobes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview
Readers Underground group for Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview page
Spheres Reading GroupGlobes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 1
#1 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Prologue, Introduction, and other preliminary texts
Spheres Reading GroupGlobes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 2
#2 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Chs. 1-2
Spheres Reading GroupGlobes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 3
#3 of 6 conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES. Chs. 3 – 4
Spheres Reading GroupGlobes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 4
#4 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Chs. 5-6 — Readers Underground
Spheres Reading GroupGlobes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 5
#5 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Ch. 7
