Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life - Planet of the Practicing - Last Hunger Art - Kafka's Hunger Artist

Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life - Planet of the Practicing - Last Hunger Art - Kafka's Hunger Artist

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What is the truth of Homo Sapiens?

What is the transformation of Unthan about? What are they escaping from?

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What is the transition from ascetics to acrobatics? For Sloterdijk it is a de-spiritualization and a condition for being human.

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Kafka exemplifies this without the heroic tone

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The acrobats make danger to their profession. This is their new God.

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The dawn of the acrobats - a rope on the ground - the discovery of the ordinary. We do not know anymore what makes us acrobats

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As the world above disappears there, it is unclear what fastens the rope. The world above is replaced by strength

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There are less super-homos, nobody walks the tight rope anymore - Christianity is at best "floorgymnastics"

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What are strengthening and what are weakening forms of training

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Three works "A Report to an Academy" (1917), "First Sorrow" (1922), "A Hunger Artist" (1923)

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An Ape in our world, but the question is: Why do humans create zoos and circuses? What are they supposed to learn there about themselves?

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The way out for the ape is freedom

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Learning the handshake, the only way to integrate into humanity.

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Next step is to learn how to narcotize himself.

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A trapez-artist who needs higher and higher thrill

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"Nothing less than the impossible is satisfactory." Transcendence becomes the impossible

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Artists have to enter the sphere of impossibility.

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Artists get remote from life. It is part of art.

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Suspicion to the hunger artist, sitting in a cage and refusing to perform the normal course of life.

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The 40 day restriction was not appreciated by the artist, because he wanted to outperform himself. His collapse in the end was a collapse because of frustration.

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Setting records that go unnoticed.

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Artistic confession that he could not find the food he liked

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fasting - "how one can beat nature at its own game." (Sloterdijk 2013:70)

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triumph over the "always passively and involuntarily experienced", replacing profane hunger with a sacred interest

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an "aversion that works for him and which he only needs to exaggerate"(Sloterdijk 2013:71), it is the denial of collaboration at all

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the above is now "an aversive tension from within",

"What was once the most spiritual of all asceticisms is now, in truth, no more than 'an impediment on the way to the menagerie'." (Sloterdijk 2013:72)

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Transition to Stalin who used Hunger against people

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Hunger as political protest: Simone Weil