New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
The central concept of our existence - not understood until now.
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 […]
Game - Misstep In the past, when I thought of games, I thought it had to do with games in the sense of amusements and amusements with rules. To play a game means to enter a space restricted by rules, and the player can develop strategies within these parameters to act according to the rules, with the goal […].
What does it mean to understand another person? It's easy to understand someone when you agree with them, because then you're just agreeing with yourself. You might even enjoy seeing your own thinking reflected in the other person, enriched by a slightly different perspective, more colorful, livelier, more energetic, because both of you are happy to have found someone [who understands you].
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 [...]
Traditional Indian music, the raga, is melodic with respect to a fundamental tone. Western music is harmonic, meaning simultaneous and complex. In the West, a lot is thought in terms of structures; for a while, there was a lot of talk about structuralist and post-structuralist thought. Complex systems are found everywhere: in philosophy, in canonical texts and visual systems, in technology [...]
Enlightenment – Illumination: The Paradox of Enlightenment It's complicated with enlightenment. Recently, someone asked me if I was seeking enlightenment. I was a bit taken aback. But because I valued this person immensely, I tried to be honest – yes, no, um, I don't really know, actually yes, if I'm being completely honest […].
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