Sitemap - New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India

This sitemap offers an overview of the main pages, subject areas, concepts, and posts of New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India. It makes navigation easier and reveals the connections between the website’s contents.

Main Pages

Introduction – the project’s starting point.
Christoph Klütsch – the author, the project’s context, and biographical background.
Glossary – key philosophical, spiritual, and conceptual approaches to the website.

Essays

These selected essays form key junctions in the project. They connect Deleuze, Indian philosophy, Auroville, art, perception, society, technology, and spiritual practice.

Who is seeing when seeing – a central essay on perception, the Kena Upanishad, Aurobindo, Deleuze, and the question of who actually sees.
Abstract art and immanence – on Deleuze and Kandinsky – the strongest foundational text in the philosophy of art on immanence, abstraction, representation, and modern art.
1st lecture: Apples and Mangoes – a text bridging the Western critique of knowledge, biblical symbolism, Brahman, art, and knowledge.
A Year in Auroville – a key personal and philosophical text on transformation, arriving, perception, and life in Auroville.
Chola Temples – a representative text on places, travel, Tamil Nadu, temple architecture, ritual space, and consciousness.
General Intelligence and the Cosmic Archive – the most important essay on technology, AI, meditation, media, and cosmic information spaces.
Eastern and Western Philosophy? – a foundational text on the cultural and philosophical tension between Europe, India, and colonial patterns of thought.
Working Out a New Worldview – a central text on farewell, transformation, capitalism, Aurobindo, and a change in philosophical orientation.
The Self – a focused essay on Ramana, the Self, emptiness, consciousness, and spiritual experience.
Emptiness – an early key text on stillness, mantra, language, mental emptiness, and inner practice.
Manifestation of Latent Images – the best essay on photography, media, Auroville, latent images, and the becoming of visual forms.
Walking the Inner Path Together – a representative text on relationship, community, Western thought, spiritual practice, and becoming together.

Subject Areas

Indian Philosophy and Practice – texts on the Upanishads, meditation, yoga, mantras, Brahman, Aurobindo, and spiritual practice in India.
Philosophy and Consciousness – posts on consciousness, thinking, immanence, representation, and philosophical transformation.
Art and Perception – posts on art, images, music, film, perception, and aesthetic experience.
Culture and Society – observations on culture, community, society, everyday life, and social forms.
Places and Travel – experiences of travel and place in India, Tamil Nadu, temples, paths, and landscapes.
Auroville – texts on Auroville as a place, a way of life, an experiment in community, and a space of experience.
Critique and Farewell – texts that critically bid farewell to patterns of thought, habits, illusions, and cultural assumptions.
Photography – photographic observations, image series, and visual impressions.
Technology and AI – posts on technology, media, AI, digital systems, and machine thinking.