Traumatology and technology – On Sloterdijk and Anders

Abstract

[Excerpt] This paper brings together slightly edited material from previously published articles in which I looked at both Sloterdijk and Anders in direct connection to Heidegger. In those articles I attempted to draw attention to an aspect not only of Heidegger’s, Sloterdijk’s and Anders’s work, but also of the work of authors such as Adorno, Beckett, Derrida, Lacan, and, more recently, Žižek – the aspect of the traumatic. My reflections on the traumatic contained in those articles, tied to Heidegger as they were, were largely concerned with metaphysical or ontological questions. They did not attempt to answer the question of how to establish an ethics of technology. I will now, at the end of this paper, provide some scattered hints on how to address this question in connection with my previous reflections. [...]