In part two of Peter Sloterdijk's "Spheres", Makrospherology
(globes), (3 big vols) is quoted a word of Cecil Rhodes:
"Expansion is everything."
In a note Sloterdijk tells that Spengler made of this adagium the
axiom of the civilizing epochs, and refers to Untergang des Abendlandes,
p. 51: "Expansion is a fatality, something demonic and monstrous, which
grabs ... and consumes ... the late man of the world stadium."
in the original are many Heidegger words:
"Expansion ist ein Verhaengnis, etwas Daemonisches und Ungeheures,
das den spaeten Menschen des Weltstadiums packt ... und verbraucht
..."
Except that behind the imperialism is not late civilatory pressure,
but the expansion of completing subjectivity.
rdb
Well placed words, Rene.
Subjectivity unquestioned desires completion, accomplished in world-limited space
only by expansion into other already occupied subjectivities.
Questioning, by its very nature, preserves incompleteness by refusing to be
reduced to an answer.
Might we say that subjectivities are "essentially" interchangeable?
Allen
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