Spheral world

The sky from yesterday afternoon. This kind of celestial formation merits a bit more of Sloterdijk this morning.

"Th thought of the Modern Age, which presented itself for so long under the naive name of 'Enlightenment' and the even more naive programmatic word 'progress,' is characterized by an innate movement: wherever it follows its typical forward motion, it achieves the breakthrough of the intellect out of the motion, it achieves the breakthrough of the intellect out of the caves of human illusion into the nonhuman world outside. It is no coincidence that the cosmological turn named after Copernicus marks the start of the newer history of knowledge and disappointment. It brought the people of the First World the loss of the cosmological center, and subsequently set off an age of progressive decentralizations. [...] Copernicus' heliocentric theory initiated a series of research eruptions into the deserted outer reaches, extending to the inhumanly remote galaxies and the most ghostly components of matter" (20).