What do we talk about when we talk about beauty? Peter Sloterdijk and Byung-Chul Han are perhaps the two leading philosophers in the current German scene, and the translation into Spanish of The Aesthetic Imperative, a collection of writings on art t
We have been living without enemies for some time now. The Cold War ended long ago. Of late even Islamic terrorism seems to have moved far away. Exactly ten years ago, in the essay The Burnout Society, I upheld the thesis that our times have invalida
The slick, spotless, smooth, and spick-and-span is the hallmark of our times. It’s what Jeff Koons’s sculptures, iPhones, and Brazilian waxing have in common. Why is the sleek so attractive to us nowadays? Aesthetics aside, it reflects a general soci
Four recent works chart the political economy of globalization and the spaces of control and conflict in the contemporary world. A sociologist and a political scientist writing from Columbia and Berkeley and an economist and a philosopher doing so fr