The spider brings forth its own web. This image from the Upanishad invites deep meditation on how nature brings out a thread that it forms into a complex symmetry. Looking at the spider, the thread, and the web-its function and the source of the complex pattern-we have an image that invites deep speculation about mantra, [...]
Retinal Art and the Ruins of Representation: Revisiting Plato's Cave and the Notion of Rasa in the Natyashastra Christoph Kluetsch "Something in the world forces us to think. This something is not an object of recognition, but a fundamental encounter." Gilles Deleuze - Difference and repetition p. 139 "Minds exist only in relation to other [...]
Unser Gehirn ist nicht der Sitz unseres Geistes, sondern das Medium, mit dem wir das Geistige erreichen können. Als ich das zum ersten Mal vor vielen Jahren auf einer Konferenz für Medientheorie gehört habe, war ich erstaunt. Meinten die das wirklich ernst? Ist das verrückt oder genial? Es gibt dieses wunderschöne altmodische Wort des ‚Feinstofflichen‘. […]
Black holes are a mystery to us. I am not a cosmologist and deal with black holes in a popular scientific way with a philosophical interest. They mark a limit to our imagination. Gravitational force influences space and time, says science. Concentrated at one point, it compresses matter to its pure substance, squeezes atomic nuclei and electrons together to form a mass [...]