Farewell
A while ago, I was talking to a friend about letting go of many ideas. I told her that, unscientifically, I visit my memories and think about why certain ideas are no longer interesting to me, that these are often ideas I engaged with during my studies. Big ideas! From Kant and Hegel, etc. She was quite taken with my story and asked if I would write it down. I said, "Why? I'm saying goodbye, after all…"
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Possible worlds
The best of all possible worlds? When I was studying philosophy in Heidelberg, I read about the logic of possible worlds. Everything possible is also real, just not accessible to me at the moment. This was an answer to a fundamental
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Insight
When I was a teenager, I lost my heart to someone who lived in Rome. I traveled to the Eternal City with no money, no plan – it was supposed to be a surprise. That went somewhat awry. We shared a pizza, but otherwise, I had a lot of time to myself. On one of the hills, I spent many hours looking at the sky. I thought about Einstein. What else. Everything else seemed too trivial. There, for the first time, I had…
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Representation
When I first came ’home‘ from India, I looked at my library and saw that almost nothing in it interested me anymore. What had happened? What is in this library, and what is not? My library is that of a philosopher and art historian who taught in Europe and the USA. It contains many books that deal with discourses of modernity and postmodernity – theoretical, historical, analytical, comparative... Often, the topic of representation is addressed. What is...
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Foucault said that the soul is the prison of the body
Can large topics be approached with small texts? The Mediterranean region is the birthplace of monotheism – Judaism, Christianity, Islam. India is the birthplace of Hinduism. Countless gods are conceived here, or else the absence of God, or the universality of the divine, depending on which of the numerous strands one follows. Two principles are visible here, however: the maxim of individuality, which continues even beyond death, and the idea of being part of something much larger, within which the...
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Technology
I grew up in the country where cars were invented. The roads and cars here seem safe, at least everything is done to ensure you are safe. Accidents are anticipated, risks calculated, potential collisions computed, and damage minimized through modular construction, or so they say. We want to be prepared for everything, here. This logic of safeguarding, risk calculation, and prevention is why I want to leave this country again. There is no room for the unexpected, this…
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Namaste - The light in me greets the light in you
In Europe, we have an idea of Enlightenment as something where an individual realizes that he or she lives under externally imposed constraints. The goal then is to overcome these constraints and place oneself under a higher law. A light goes on and shines into all the dark corners, thereby questioning what has not yet been reflected upon and examined. This intellectual movement is described with the metaphor of light as a torch. The light of Enlightenment shines centrally into…
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Reading Deleuze in India
Mnemosyne Atlas This is a personal blog. However, it is also about a transformation of consciousness. Consciousness does not exist singularly within people. It only exists in connection to other consciousness. Consciousness is communicative. A journey into consciousness is therefore always more than just a personal journey. It is a manifestation. In 2016, I traveled to India. I wanted to read Gilles Deleuze there. I had a feeling that doing so would unlock a new level. I read slowly. Thoughts are...
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