{"id":5032,"date":"2025-02-04T23:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2025-02-05T01:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:58:34","slug":"yantras-sacred-geometry-in-nature-body-and-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/yantras-sacred-geometry-in-nature-body-and-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Yantras: Sacred Geometry in Nature, Body and Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">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, tantra, and yantra, about art and knowledge, about creation and information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">The 5th lecture explores art and scientific visualizations of sacred symmetry in a field of tension between ancient yantras and computer architecture, between temples and artificial intelligence. At the center of this exploration, I want to delve into Deleuze's concepts of the 'actual' and the 'virtual': how can manifestation be thought of in a plane of immanence.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yantra.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Yantra<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5032-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yantras.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yantras.mp3\">https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yantras.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5032-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/notes_on_Yantras_from_Garden.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/notes_on_Yantras_from_Garden.mp3\">https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/notes_on_Yantras_from_Garden.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014its function and the source of the complex pattern\u2014we have an image that invites deep speculation about mantra, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[216,251,748,382,201,316,728,151],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bewusstsein","tag-information","tag-ki","tag-knowledge","tag-meditation","tag-natur","tag-om","tag-thought","tag-upanishaden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingdeleuzeinindia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}