In the World Interior of Capital Quotes

“The beautiful in its pure form can safely be left to the idealists, while the half-beautiful and the ugly occupy empiricists.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization

“As the activity culture of modernity constitutes itself against heteronomy, however, it will seek and find methods to place the commanding authority inside the hearer of the command themselves, so that they seem only to be obeying their inner voice when they submit. In this way, the fact of ‘subjectivity’ is demanded, created and fulfilled. What is meant, then, is the individual's co-determination of the authority that can give them commands.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization

“Being-‘subject’ means taking up a position from which an actor can make the transition from theory to practice. This transition usually takes place once an actor has found the motive that liberates them from hesitation and disinhibits them for action.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization