This article returns to the existentialist roots of ontological security theory (OST) and proposes a phenomenological re-reading of ontological security through the theoretical language of spherology and immunology in order to bring OST into a more substantive engagement with the spatial and immunological realities and practices of the globalizing world. Departing from the work of Peter Sloterdijk, the article advances three principal claims. Firstly, it shows that under the spatio-immunological dislocations of late modernity, the processes of ontological security are better understood as matters of “co-ontological security,” reflecting the highly relational and co-dependent character by which human lifeworlds are organized and juxtaposed. Secondly, it explores the ways in which technologies and life-support systems of ontological security may have negative ramifications for the ontological integrities of other neighboring lifeworlds. And lastly, the article investigates the autoimmunological processes that are at work in all immunological systems and that are capable of turning the mechanisms of ontological security into the very sources of insecurity. In exploring these themes, the text examines the retirement community known as The Villages to show how protected living in an expanding and gated lifestyle community produces the very conditions of ontological insecurity for the self and for others.

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门控生活世界的共同本体论证券：晚期现代性下的大气和泡沫免疫学


本文回归本体安全理论（OST）的存在主义根源，并提出通过球体学和免疫学的理论语言对本体安全进行现象学重新解读，以使OST与空间和免疫学现实和实践进行更实质性的接触全球化的世界。与 Peter Sloterdijk 的工作不同，本文提出了三个主要主张。首先，它表明，在现代性晚期的空间免疫错位下，本体论安全的过程可以更好地理解为“共本体论安全”问题，反映了人类生活世界组织和并置的高度相关和相互依赖的特征。其次，它探讨了本体安全的技术和生命支持系统可能对其他邻近生命世界的本体完整性产生负面影响的方式。最后，本文研究了在所有免疫系统中发挥作用的自身免疫过程，这些过程能够将本体安全机制转变为不安全的根源。在探讨这些主题时，本文考察了被称为“村庄”的退休社区，以展示在不断扩大和封闭的生活方式社区中受保护的生活如何为自我和他人带来本体上的不安全感。