New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
The spider brings forth its own web. This image from the Upanishad invites deep meditation on how nature brings out a thread that it forms into a complex symmetry. Looking at the spider, the thread, and the web-its function and the source of the complex pattern-we have an image that invites deep speculation about mantra, [...]
Auro Art World organized a series of 6 lectures at the Centre d'Art multimedia room in Auroville. These lectures, conducted by Dr. Christoph Kluetsch, explore connections between art, philosophy, and spirituality, bridging Eastern and Western traditions to illuminate the enduring questions of existence, consciousness, and creativity. The series is offered on the first Tuesday of every month. Fourth lecture - Tuesday 7th January [...]
Retinal Art and the Ruins of Representation: Revisiting Plato's Cave and the Notion of Rasa in the Natyashastra Christoph Kluetsch "Something in the world forces us to think. This something is not an object of recognition, but a fundamental encounter." Gilles Deleuze - Difference and repetition p. 139 "Minds exist only in relation to other [...]
During the Chola Empire, the layout of Shiva temples was formalized to a great degree. Based on the Agamas and Shastras, the temple was fully developed into a place in space, time, and consciousness where the microcosm and macrocosm mirror each other. When a temple is built, a site will be chosen, and it has […]
The snake in paradise seduced Eve to eat a fruit from the forbidden tree of knowledge that holds the distinction between good and evil. Why was the tree of knowledge a forbidden tree? Why did the snake seduce Eve? What did the fruit taste like? When I asked myself why I want to talk about […]
Spiel – Fehltritt Im Westen dachte ich früher, dass Spielen mit Spielen im Sinne von Games zu tun hat und Games mit Regeln. Ein Spiel zu spielen bedeutet, in einen Raum einzutreten, der durch Regeln eingeschränkt ist, und der Spieler kann innerhalb dieser Parameter Strategien entwickeln, um gemäß den Regeln zu handeln, mit dem Ziel […]
Was heißt es, einen anderen zu verstehen? Es ist leicht, ein Gegenüber zu verstehen, wenn man einer Meinung ist, denn dann stimmt man sich einfach selbst zu, genießt es vielleicht sogar, das eigene Denken im anderen gespiegelt zu sehen, angereichert durch eine etwas andere Perspektive, bunter, lebendiger, energetischer, weil beide sich freuen, jemanden gefunden zu […]
It's a full moon in India. Time for self-reflection, meditation and inner reflection. I've never really thought about death before. It has always been a boundary for me, the thing that defines our existence in a negative way. Finitude throws us back on ourselves, or so I thought. I somewhat agreed with Heidegger here. Something [...]
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