ABSTRACT
This special issue intends to introduce the English-speaking world to one of the most significant and far-reaching aspects of Peter Sloterdijk’s thought, anthropotechnics. Although a number of introductions and commentaries on Sloterdijk’s works already exist in English, there is as of yet no sustained discussion of anthropotechnics despite of its relevance not only to Sloterdijk’s oeuvre, but especially to the several crises that now punctuate our contemporary world situation more generally. It is high time, we believe, that this notion, which Sloterdijk has now been elaborating for over twenty years, becomes part of the conversation about questions concerning the future of humanity in a world marked by globalization and its attendant developments – technological, political, economic, scientific, and ecological – and its discontents, its crises, and possibilities.
