New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness exists only in connection with other consciousness
Yesterday, after many years, I finally went into the village center of Roubion. Vilém Flusser lived here for many years. I quoted his books often in my seminars and used them as a basis for discussion. Especially his philosophy of photography. Flusser is a wild theorist. He wrote much about images, media, language, technology, signs, history… It seems to me he kept thinking about how thinking works. How do words and images arise in our heads, and how much does…
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What should I take to India? I want to live a different life, in a different society, with different ideas and goals. It is warm there; life will be simple. Apart from the basics, such as a few clothes, I need my technical devices: laptop, phone, camera. And what else? A good flashlight, because the dirt roads there are not lit. And books… There will be a number of libraries there too. I have not read for ‘pleasure’ for a…
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For so many years I have thought about Marx. Who has not? The idea of an equal and solidary community, free of ideological superstructure or irrational will-o’-the-wisps. A world that knows only matter and sees in it a scientific, progressive movement. Its goal? A world in which humanity is complete, that is, harmonious, without envy and ill will, solidary and equal in rights, without alienation and external determination, which alone makes possible the unfolding of the individual within a collective.…
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