Transforming Darkness podcasts

Light is oppression, darkness is knowledge


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Thinking against the currents of the Enlightenment, the physical and mental craving for light, as a way of avoiding hypervisibility. Choosing the space of darkness, of opacity and shadows as a way of actually seeing yourself – maybe the physical sight is overrated: in a world where everything has been reduced to visibility it can be helpful to sharpen our other sensen, to rehearse different sensibilities. If light is control, darkness is a retreat for contemplation and knowledge.

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Transforming Darkness podcastsBy Carsten Ortmann