Foreword
Patrick Roney and Andrea Rossi
Introduction: Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics
Patrick Roney and Andrea Rossi
1. Alone with Oneself: Solitude as Cultural Technique
Thomas Macho translated by Sascha Rashof
2. Anthropotechnics and the Absolute Imperative
Patrick Roney
3. Of an Enlightenment-conservative Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy
Serge Trottein
4. Specters of Religion: Sloterdijk, Immunology, and the Crisis of Immanence
Gary E. Aylesworth
5. Sartre and Sloterdijk: The Ethical Imperative. You Must Change Your Life
Christina Howells
6. Ascetic Worlds: Notes on Politics and Technologies of the Self after Peter Sloterdijk
Andrea Rossi
7. The Limits of the Spheres: Otherness and Solipsism in Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy
Antonio Lucci
8. Anthropotechnical Practising in the Foam-world
Oliver Davis
9. Staying with the Darkness: Peter Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics for the Digital Age
Andrea Capra
10. The Unknown Quantity: Sleep as a Trope in Sloterdijk’s Anthropotechnics
Robert Hughes
Untitled (Negative Exercises)
Andrea Rossi
Biography
Andrea Rossi is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. His principal research interests lie at the intersection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Continental philosophy and political theory, with a special focus on the question of political and economic subjectivity. He is the author of The Labour of Subjectivity: Foucault on Biopolitics, Economy, Critique (2015), and co-editor with Diana Stypinska of Pastoral Power Today (forthcoming).
Patrick Roney earned his Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and taught in the Philosophy department at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, as an Associate Professor until his retirement in 2018. At present he teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. His research interests include aesthetics and the philosophy of art, with a particular focus on the sublime and the postmodern, the modern lyric, as well as phenomenology and environmental ethics. He has published numerous essays both in literature and in philosophy in journals such as the African American Review, Research in Phenomenology, The South African Journal of Philosophy, and several others.
