sloterdijk [air/condition].

TERM [surrealism].

"Surrealism," as a period of artistic and theoretical thematics, can be viewed as visualizing modernistic impulses. In other words, the surrealist movement provided a physically present reading of an evolving creativity in thought, social culture, and of course art. The artistic work represented visuals collected from the unconscious; the work broke free of creative latency in a "revolution" of sorts. Sloterdijk explains that surrealism's purpose was, "to render the content of dreams and deliriums objective" (p. 76), and to use, "technical objects not in the conditions specific to them but as symbolic draperies" (p. 74). This methodology resulted in artistic creations that challenged mediocrity and rivaled normalcy. In short, surrealism gave the arts a, "right to be mad" (p.83).

TERM [psychoanalytic].

Perhaps the term "psychoanalytic" can be used in the definition of "surrealism." Likewise, concepts that collectively define a surrealist idea can also be applied to the definition of psychoanalytic. Though, one term is not a synonym for the other. Psychoanalytic can be differentiated by its roots in Freudian psychology. Psychoanalysis can be seen as a, "strategy for reading signs and manipulating background givens" (p. 82). It is a topic which delves into the explainable and unexplainable past and provides subjective readings into the confused present. Yet, similar to surrealism, psychoanalysis delves into the "unconscious" to produce explanations, connections, and symbolic attributions in revolutionary ways. Like surrealism, it becomes a methodology to explain the unexplainable and make sense of the mind's madness.

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

Though I chose two terms that occurred in the first portion of the reading, I wanted to briefly address the latter half of the text which dealt with authorship of the atmosphere. Sloterdijk discussed the collective atmospheric organ which is controlled by all creatures at all scales. The atmosphere's life is given through each organism, meaning that the whole is comprised of many small assemblies. Yet, the atmosphere's condition is entirely out of one individuals control, since a simple change can have a ubiquitous effect on the whole. Thus, holding control over the all-encompassing entity (authorship) seems entirely possible and impossible at once.