Abstract

This article presents excerpts from the introduction to Peter Sloterdijk’s forthcoming book , Foams. Plural Spherology, third volume of Spheres, where the author defines a Foam-model as the condition of a neo-monadology. This almost-nothing, which nevertheless carries a form, a surface, a fragility and its own temporality, opens a space for the subversion of the notion of substance. Following the analogy between foams and dreams , Sloterdijk reconfigures the images and anxieties of modernity in order to sketch an « aphrology » -from the Greek aphros, «foam » - a theory of the systems characterized by relations of co fragility