A short (I think very interesting…) paragraph from Peter Sloterdijk’s Zorn und Zeit, 102
‘Like the money-economy, the wrath-economy also transcends its critical threshold if wrath rises up, from the stage of its local accumulation and punctual expenditure to the systematic investment and the cyclical multiplication. With respect to money, one describes this distinction as the transition from the hoard-form to the capital-form. In terms of wrath the corresponding transformation would be completed once the vengeful production of pain changes itself from the revenge-form to the revolution-form. Revolution, in the most extensive sense of the word, cannot be any matter of the ressentiment of an isolated private individual, though such affects also get their money’s worth at the critical moment. They imply the grounding of a wrath-bank, whose investments must be as thoroughly planned as an army operation before the decisive battle – or the actions of a multinational corporation before the hostile takeover of competitors.’
I might comment on the book as a whole later (when I’ve read it all), but for now I’ll content myself with putting up short translations of the most interesting bits (of which there are certainly plenty).
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