New Spirits – Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness exists only in connection with other consciousness
Art begins not with flesh but with the house. (Deleuze) I now practice meditation. It took a long time to admit this to myself. Somehow I had always done it, only I did not know it. Like most people, I have phases in which I look inward, or concentrate contemplatively on something, phases in which I try to calm my mind, or find out what this I within me actually is, phases in which I try to understand what…
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Exhibition “Roots From the Sky” by Cedric Bregnard at Centre d’Art, Auroville March 2023 Cedric Bregnard is 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 (approximately 3x7m) in the gallery. Residents of Auroville are invited to trace light and shadow on the bark, the leaves, the roots, in ink…
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Recently, a friend told me how she had grown up at the Ashram school. Mirra Alfassa founded this school with a radical pedagogy. Children could freely choose what they wanted to learn and when. Quite radically: there was a timetable for languages, history, mathematics, philosophy, gossip, sports, and so on, but the kids could go wherever they wanted. And so each child received exactly what they needed for their own development. If a child needed gossip, then that was simply…
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In the western analytic-modern theories of consciousness, i.e. those which understand themselves as empirical-scientific, a correlation between matter and consciousness is always assumed. This is relatively undisputed in itself, since actually the very most thought buildings assume it. Birth and death mark the corner points of this correlation. Now the question arises, how does this correlation look like? Does the consciousness determine the matter, or the matter the consciousness, or is it an interaction? 3 variants of the relation between…
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What would a world look like without the focal point of a lens? Our eyes have a lens that gathers the light, focuses it on a plane, so that the retina can receive this focused image—as an image on a plane. The rays of light are captured by receptors and passed on to the brain. This vibration of the nerve cells is transcribed into another vibration, that of consciousness. This principle was copied in the camera obscura and the cinematograph…
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Learn more about the artists and their inspiring practices in Pondycherry. Discover the visual language and spiritual depth of the art landscape around Auroville. Immerse yourself in the world of art beyond the conception of representation and discover the vibration of the senses. Learn how Deleuze’s thinking and the Kena Upanishads are interwoven. Let the question of the body without organs inspire you and discover the boundaries of the physical body.
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This text concerns a change in worldview and the process of letting go of old convictions to make room for new ideas.
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Learn how a colorful character in the seminar questions systematic scholarship and finally takes refuge in aesthetic theory.
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