New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Learn how a 3-day intensive workshop at Sunlit Path with Niloy led to an immersion into the world of Dhrupad. Discover the complexity of Dhrupad and Nada Yoga - the exploration of sound and vibration. Sharpen your senses and immerse yourself in the art of sound.
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But Hitler built the Autobahn! I'm hearing this more and more often lately. It's difficult to continue this discussion because a certain argument, which I find very important, is quite complex and is rejected by people who want to relativize fascism and the Holocaust. The argument, inspired by Adorno, is: After Auschwitz, no more poems can be written. Roughly outlined, it goes like this: The extent of the horror of the Holocaust is so great that we, as individuals and as...
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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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Exhibition „Roots From the Sky“ by Cedric Bregnard at Centre d’Art, Auroville March 2023 Cedric Bregnard is an artist in residence at the Centre d’Art in Auroville. Over the next 2 months, he will take a photograph of the Banyan tree in the Matrimandir garden. This photograph will then be scaled to the size of a wall (approx. 3x7m) in the gallery. Residents of Auroville are invited to trace the light and shadows on the bark, leaves, and roots in ink onto the wall. What lies behind this process...
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Standing on the loading bed of a small truck, I've been driving around Auroville these past few days, collecting various items for the Potters Market. These small trucks are the big brothers of tuk-tuks. Sometimes you see six or seven dozen people standing on them when a big festival is coming up. It's a popular mode of transport for people in the villages when they travel long distances together to be close to the gods. It's surprising how safe it is...
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Yesterday, after many years, I finally drove to the village center of Roubion. Vilém Flusser lived here for many years. I often quoted his books in my seminars and used them as a basis for discussion. Especially his philosophy of photography. Flusser is a wild theorist. He wrote a lot about images, media, language, technology, signs, history... It seems to me that he repeatedly thought about how thinking works. How do words and images arise in our heads and how much does that have to do with...
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Highways have always been special places for me. Most of the time, I wasn't under time pressure; I rarely had to get from A to B by a certain 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 room for thought. Often, these rooms are simply empty. The brain is busy navigating safely in traffic. It's a pleasant form of occupation; consciousness is occupied and alert, a mistake would be fatal. When I...
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It is now definitely time to rethink. What our fathers and grandfathers called progress is destroying our planet. Science is not an end in itself, not everything that is technically feasible is good, not everything that is fun and satisfies our senses is meaningful. Now we hear from many sides repeatedly to concentrate on the small steps ahead, and that only then will we move forward together. This may be right occasionally, but it distracts from what is essential. Where do we actually want to go? Power…
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