ABSTRACT
Anthropotechnics, the “legitimate successor to metaphysics” takes the form of a General Immunology and produces in effect a new definition of the essence of human being as Homo immunologicus : human beings are those who must build a “world,” who must “en-house” themselves by means of three systems of protection – biological, sociocultural, and symbolic. Despite its significance, what is remarkable about Sloterdijk’s treatment of the categorical imperative and Kant’s moral philosophy in general is how little he has to say about it. It is mentioned often, but almost always as a foil for the idea of the absolute imperative. The absolute imperative is one that “exceeds the options of the hypothetical and the categorical”. A utopian art is an art that ends in self negation. Appearances to the contrary, Heidegger’s questioning never devolves into an anti-technology diatribe.
