This great and exceptional writer formulated the above demand as early as 1962 – not in 2020.
However, both for 1962 and in general, there is an immediate justification for this statement: a certain distance is always needed in order … Weiterlesen
Justifiably, birds do not care about the debates and findings in ornithology. They just fly about, they tweet and they do many other things. The same applies to artists: if they complied with the demands, or simply the insights, of … Weiterlesen
An intelligent critique of the Bauhaus and other transparent architecture. Somehow this style of architecture evokes associations of quarantine and hygiene, its cleanliness has the charm of a tuberculosis clinic. Everything that does not fit in, that is defined as … Weiterlesen
Discussions are certainly important for comprehension, for interacting with one another and for discovering new things. But, and this happens all too often today, when the discourse dissolves into mere chatter, gets stuck in justifications or in allegedly great meta-theories: … Weiterlesen
Here, Kafka precisely describes the activity of the (male only) flaneur, who emerged in the second half of the 19th century. Much later, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the concept of the flaneur was taken up and modified … Weiterlesen
Precisely this freedom to consider so-called reality as a world of possibilities promotes vitality and contradicts any form of defeatism. Possibilities, indeed meaningful and exciting possibilities, present themselves constantly. One only has to recognise and use them. Not least to … Weiterlesen
Unfortunately, very little is known about the author. He has published a few texts and is said to live in San Francisco.
The above quote plausibly explains that, sometimes, deliberate thinking hinders insight because thinking often persists in the logical … Weiterlesen
