Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

EGOSPHERE

This term can be defined as space driven by the individualistic ego within the coisolated environment. Peter Sloterdijk sites the private apartment as an "atomic or elementary egospheric form - as a cellular world bubble." Our apartments or houses allow us to control every aspect of that space, making these spaces a direct representation of us. In the urban environment the egoshpere is housed under organically emerging structures, which causes the coisolated environment Sloterdijk refers to in his readings to exist and flourish.

The egosphere or capsule then becomes an essential piece of a larger network within our environment, giving us the ability to share partitions between our different bubbles. The egosphere is the space we can all relate to, however we must acknowledge the fact that our own egosphere is dependent on those of everyone else around us which reinforces a simple concept of the coisolation - the interconnectivity of all individualistic spaces. The concept of the egosphere in its most elementary sense is demonstrated by the findings of Robert Hooke and his observation of the cellular structure of cork under a microscope, which also identifies the coisolated nature of cellular structure.

"We will define the apartment as an atomic or elementary egospheric form – as a cellular world bubble, the massive repetition of which generates individualistic foams." 1

Apartments are Heideggerian: "Existence in a one-room apartment is nothing other than the being-in-the-world of one single case" 2

"When British physician Robert Hooke introduced, in his 1665 work Micrographia, the biological concept of the cell to describe the dense arrangement of discrete cavities in a piece of cork (discovered under a microscope), he was inspired by the analogy of rows of monks' cells in a monastery." 3

Citations
Sloterdijk, Peter. Cell Block, Egospheres, Self-container. 2007, Log 10, pp.90
Sloterdijk, Peter. Cell Block, Egospheres, Self-container. 2007, Log 10, pp.91
Sloterdijk, Peter. Cell Block, Egospheres, Self-container. 2007, Log 10, pp.92