spheres theory: talking to myself about the poetics of space by peter sloterdijk

"Being means someone being together with someone else and with something else in something. This formula describes the minimum complexity you need to construct in order to arrive at an appropriate concept of world. Architects are involved in this consideration, since for them being-in-the-world means dwelling in a building. A house is a threedimensional answer to the question of how someone can be together with someone and something in something. In their own way, architects interpret this most enigmatic of all spatial prepositions, namely the “in.”"

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