Sloterdijk bubbles and foams

According to Wikipedia, Peter Sloterdijk is  German philosopher, television host, cultural scientist and essayist. He is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe. He currently co-hosts the German show Im Glashaus: Das Philosophische Quartett.

For Sloterdijk, foam , is a ‘multi-chambered system consisting of spaces formed by gas

pressure and surface tensions which restrict and deform one another according to fairly strict

geometric laws’. The analogy is formally and structurally indicative so as to be understood as

a representation of metropolitan living and is meant to create a rhetorical picture of thinly

walled, notably individual, bubbles that are at the same time connected by machine-mediated

communication vectors that make us part of an orthodox, semi-rigid system.
I am including some links rather than attempt to explain too much of his theories wth only a Sloterdijk101 knowledge.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03085140802357943#preview

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/philosophical

http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=1006
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/rsw/research_centres/theory/lec/sloterdijk/