Part VIII: Categorical Societies

Part Overview

Sector S_P (Practical), Part 2 of 2. How do societies organize? Sloterdijk’s spheres meet categorical structure—bubbles, globes, and foams. Dunbar limits rural worlds; cities regulate connection. Architecture mirrors culture; generations drift through lineages. Capital networks create world-interior. Information overload is treated as a structural fragmentation pressure on attention, meaning, and social coordination, not as a clinical or diagnostic claim. Nine global spheres emerge from collective to individual. Power is morphism structure; sovereignty is boundary control; legitimacy is recognition coherence. Religion shapes spheres through the sacred-profane distinction; rituals glue individuals into communities. Together with Part VII, the practical sector S_P covers what classical philosophy calls ethics and political philosophy—the two domains governed by the register question “what should I do?”

Chapters

• Chapter 94: Objects with Dignity and Worlds with Structure
• Chapter 95: Spheres, Bubbles, and Foams: Sloterdijk
• Chapter 96: Rural Worlds and Dunbar Limits
• Chapter 97: Cities as Connection Regulators
• Chapter 98: Architecture as Cultural Mirroring
• Chapter 99: Generations, Lineages, and Drift
• Chapter 100: Capital Networks and World-Interior
• Chapter 101: Overload, Fragmentation, and Schizophrenia
• Chapter 102: From Collective to Individual
• Chapter 103: Nine Global Spheres
• Chapter 104: Political Philosophy in τ
• Chapter 105: Religion and the Sacred