Abstract

ARANGO TOBON, Mauricio Alexander. Notes for A Negative Anthropotechnics or of Bad Practice. A Proposal from Sloterdijk. Eidos [online]. 2024, n.41, pp.147-176.  Epub May 15, 2024. ISSN 1692-8857.

This analysis uses the notion of anthropotechnics developed by the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk as its starting point. The author assumes that humans are exercising beings in that day by day we carry out a series of diary routines that allow us to shape our existence. Within this process, we encounter social institutions that guide those anthropotechnics exercises. From an exhaustive characterization of Sloterdijk's approach, we propose the notion of negative anthropotechnics (as the inverse of anthropotechnics) to refer to an alternative understanding of the counterindicated exercises that are performed in opposition to legitimized and idealized values of how to shape existence. We conclude that negative anthropotechnics can be an analytical resource to approach malpractice as a historical phenomenon and to the existential potency of some lives that are expressed as privileged negativity, abjection, or marginality.

Keywords : anthropotechnics; Sloterdijk; culture; existence; negativity.

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