Sloterdijk's cupola / globe metaphor
example · Peter Sloterdijk ·
retold in 3 talks
Sloterdijk argues that global capitalism is not merely worldwide but forms a dome (cupola): some are inside, some outside, and those inside literally cannot see the outside, illustrated by 15,000 illegal Chinese slave-workers in a suburb of Florence.
As told 2
“in the suburb of Firenze, my god, the high point of Western civilization, there are fifteen thousand Chinese workers there illegally who work as slaves. So it's not back there…it's here.”
“The privileged live under a globe even if it's an invisible globe and we don't really see what is outside even if we think it's the logic of Elysium.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Jerry Brown1Reiner Schürmann1Joseph Campbell1Emmanuel Faye1Richard Sennett1Samir Amin1Willy Brandt1Paul Feyerabend1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
Sloterdijk argues that global capitalism is not merely worldwide but forms a dome (cupola): some are inside, some outside, and those inside literally cannot see the outside, illustrated by 15,000 illegal Chinese slave-workers in a suburb of Florence., illustrating capitalism's global enclosure,ideological blindness
Sloterdijk argues in his globalization book that global capitalism is also a literal globe: the privileged live under an invisible dome where they cannot see the misery outside, even if they know it rationally, like the film Elysium or Logan's Run., illustrating global inequality,ideology,charity as bribery