When Heidegger spoke, in 1927, in Being and Time, with ontological ceremoniousness about the existential characteristic of being-towards-death (Seins-zum-Tode), American prison officers and
executioners had already put in operation an apparatus that made the breathing-towards-death (Atmen-zum-Tode) an ontically controlled procedure.
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes
