Peter Sloterdijk argues that modernity as a project is based on a conception of kinetics where the world is controlled by humans who move it toward a future utopia.

This continuously leads to disappointment, as the utopian human actions set unexpected things in motion and create side-effects outside the control of reason.

Dismissing explanations of modernity based on negative concepts such as guilt, lack and scarcity, Sloterdijk promotes the view of life as a series of beginnings, drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche and on Hannah Arendt's notion of natality.

[1] In Die Tageszeitung, Mathias Bröckers wrote that Sloterdijk's writing style appears lighthearted but the subject in Infinite Mobilization is heavy.

[6] Reviewing the English translation for the philosophy journal Cosmos and History, J. Daniel Andersson wrote that "yet another immanent critique of modernity" may seem irrelevant in the 21st century, but the book is timely because it ties in with current discussions about the Anthropocene and historiology, and can be read alongside Dipesh Chakrabarty's critique of the separation of human and natural sciences.