New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Many films feature grand hotels that are centrally located and serve as meeting places for the political, intellectual, and economic elite. I have always perceived this as something very elitist, colonial, and power-hungry. What I missed in the films, and what was probably rarely discussed there, is the networking that takes place in such locations. […]
There was a time in Europe when people spoke of universal geniuses. In Germany, that would be Alexander von Humboldt or Goethe, in France an Enlightenment thinker, in Italy the Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. In antiquity, Aristotle. Certainly, there are wise people in many cultures and eras that history tells of, they […]
Highways have always been special places for me. Most of the time, I wasn't under time pressure, and rarely did I have to get from point A to point B by a specific time. Rather, highways are travel routes. I find myself in transitional states there, a kind of no-man's-land with endless possibilities. That opens up spaces for thought. Often they are simply empty. The brain is busy with [...]
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Our brain is not the seat of our mind, but the medium through which we can reach the spiritual. When I first heard this many years ago at a conference on media theory, I was astonished. Did they really mean it? Is that crazy or brilliant? There is this beautiful old-fashioned word, ‚the subtle.‘ [...]
I live in a hyper-complex society. I already notice this in political and social issues that no one can really grasp in their complexity anymore. We can cling to principles such as justice, equality, freedom, consideration, sustainability, etc.. But when it comes to the specifics, it becomes difficult. Should I stand up for myself in a conflict [...]?
One of the most serious misunderstandings of recent generations is the confusion between economic and political theory. It seems to be almost a consensus that capitalism is understood as a political theory. There may be many reasons why capitalism needs to be understood politically. There are certainly also reasons why capitalism is often thought of together with democracy. For many [...]
In Plato's allegory of the cave, people sit in front of a wall on which the shadows of real objects in the world can be seen. As they have only seen the shadows in their entire lives, they think that these are reality. The philosopher's task is to explain to the people that they should turn around in order to [...]
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