Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Lexicon-8 : Sloterdijk_Air

1. topic based term : Atmosphere(n.)

: The gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body, especially the one surrounding the earth, and retained by the celestial body's gravitational field.

: The air or climate in a specific place.

: An aesthetic quality or effect, especially a distinctive and pleasing one, associated with a particular place

2. descriptive/active terms : unpredictable(v.)

: not capable of being predicted; changeable


Quotes

"...These processes are so comp lex that an adeq uate analysis of
them demands a new kind of physics able to deal with their
unpredictable currents and "chaotic" turbulences..."

"...It speaks of that which happens just by itself and
according to its own conditions, of how it happens. and of
that which , in the best of cases, gets "reflected" as objective
quality data in a subjective medium..."

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