New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Learn more about the secret of Kolams – a traditional art form in Tamil Nadu where women draw intricate patterns on the streets before sunrise. This practice combines dance, meditation, and contemplation, conveying symbolic messages across generations.
Art begins not with flesh but with the house. (Deleuze) I now practise meditation. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. I've somehow always done it, I just didn't know it. Like most people, I have phases in which I look inside myself or concentrate on something contemplatively, phases in which [...]
Recently, a friend told me about growing up in the Ashram school. Mirra Alfassa founded this school with a radical pedagogy. Children could freely choose what they wanted to learn and when. Quite radical: although there was a timetable for languages, history, mathematics, philosophy, gossip, sports, etc., the kids could go wherever they [...]
In Western analytical-modern theories of consciousness, meaning those which understand themselves as empirically scientific, a correlation between matter and consciousness is always assumed. This is relatively uncontroversial in itself, as virtually all conceptual frameworks proceed from this assumption. Birth and death mark the cornerstones of this correlation. Now the question arises: What does this correlation look like? […]
The Isha Upanishad poses the question of the complexity of the universe and reminds us of the origin of knowledge. Find out more here.
Find out more about the challenges faced by young people in the divided Germany of the 1980s and the philosophical debates that revolved around German guilt.
Learn more about the artists and their inspiring practices in Pondycherry. Discover the visual language and spiritual depth of the art landscape around Auroville. Immerse yourself in the world of art beyond representational conception and discover the vibration of the senses. Experience how Deleuze's thinking and the Kena Upanishads are interwoven. Be inspired by the question of the body without organs and discover the limits of the physical body.
This text clears up the misunderstanding about art that it is supposed to be a representation. Art is not communication, but a unique experience.
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