They were handsome, smoked a lot, loved women, nature, and light—and they resisted the Nazi occupation. Albert Camus and Jacques...
Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971) has been well-known in France since 2015. His work is now considered a classic of French literature....
In June 2024, there was a staged reading of Jacques Lusseyran’s Das wiedergefundene Licht [And There Was Light] with Richard Schnell, Fritz Nagel, and a sculpture by Barbara Schnetzler. One member of the audience, Aina Bergsma, left the six-hour program feeling “ge-ich-tet” [‘I’-ed] and offers her reflection. In a time...
Jean appears, hand outstretched and a shining hat of light on his head—a special hat that perhaps only I can...
For several centuries, scientific materialism neglected the experiential presuppositions of its own research activities, striving to achieve an outside, disembodied,...
A year of uncertainty draws to a close, and on Christmas Eve, the stream of crises and catastrophes fades into the silence of the Holy Nights. This hiatus in time opens up a space into which the future can be invited as an ideal possibility. In the darkness of the...
New Year’s Eve is not just a matter of the date in an externally conceived calendar. It is the middle...
Nosotros, We have entered a journey of healing together.Who am I? Who are you? Who are we to do this...
Has Big Tech replaced capitalism with a new, even more exploitative system, “cloudalism”? That’s what former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis claims in his book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. According to Varoufakis, the cloudalists—big tech companies such as Meta, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, etc.—have amassed huge amounts of cloud capital that...
All that is good, beautiful, and true comes in threes—sweet, salty, and sour; heads, hands, and hearts; darkness, light, and...
Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the “oriental,” Indian, Chinese,...
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