New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Recently, in Auroville, a play by the landlords of Bharat Nivas was removed from the program. The reason given was that some in the community took offense to it even before it was performed. This raises questions. What is art allowed to do, when is a ban justified? Coupled with this, of course, is the question of what the task of art is, what art should therefore do. The question invites reflection on the role of art in general, here in India and...
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Art begins not with flesh but with the house. (Deleuze) Ich praktiziere nun Meditation. Es hat lange gedauert, mir das einzugestehen. Ich habe das irgendwie schon immer getan, nur wusste ich es nicht. Ich habe wie die meisten Menschen Phasen, in denen ich in mich reinschaue, oder mich auf etwas kontemplativ konzentriere, Phasen, in denen ich versuche meinen Geist zu beruhigen, oder herauszufinden, was dieses Ich in mir eigentlich ist, Phasen, wo ich versuche das zu verstehen, was mein…
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In Western analytical-modern theories of consciousness, that is, those that consider themselves empirically scientific, a correlation between matter and consciousness is always assumed. This is relatively uncontroversial in itself, as virtually all frameworks proceed from this assumption. Birth and death mark the endpoints of this correlation. The question then arises: What does this correlation look like? Does consciousness determine matter, or does matter determine consciousness, or is it an interaction? 3 variants of the relation between consciousness and matter The first…
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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.
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What would a world be like without the focal point of a lens? Our eyes have a lens that bundles light, focusing it onto a plane so that the retina can capture this focused image – as an image on a single plane. The light rays are captured by receptors and relayed to the brain. This vibration of nerve cells is transcribed into another vibration, that of consciousness. This principle was copied in the camera obscura and the cinematographer, and forms the basis of classical photography and film...
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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.
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This text is about changing your world view and the process of letting go of old beliefs to make room for new ideas.
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Discover the spiritual power of the Upanishads and the Rigveda in India. Experience the essence and the pure form of the senses in meditation.
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