Category: crealectics
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Is a New Life Possible? Deleuze and Philosophical So(u)rcery
This is my clarification of Deleuze and Guattari and how their philosophy can be helpful in everyday life. Published in 2013 by Deleuze Studies Journal. I now realise it contains many germs of my current practice of Philosophical Counseling as transmutation. I became a so(u)rcerer. https://philarchive.org/archive/MIRIAN Abstract In his dialogues with Claire Parnet, Deleuze asserts…
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The Vision of Philosophical Health
“Philosophical health will be in the 21st century what physical and psychological health were in the 20th century. At the beginning of the century, it is a luxury for the happy few. By the end of the century, it is a necessity for all.” Luis de Miranda, talk at Unesco, Paris, 29 October 2019 Health…
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How to Write The Book of Your Life, An Improvised Musical Talk
How to Write The Book of Your Life – An Improvised Talk of Which You are the Hero, with Piano Accompaniment by philosopher and author Luis de Miranda and pianist Peter Knudsen FREE ENTRANCE To create a book you need: letters, inspiration, paper or a computer, a way of transposing an inspiration and experience…
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What does a philosphical counselor look like?
Alcibiades being advised by Socrates. A painting by François-André Vincent. Notice that behind Socrates is his daemon, the divinity that inspires him.
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The Creal Nature of the Philosopher’s Stone
Drawing of the Big Bang by my daughter Svea, 7. In my practice as a philosophical counselor, I often encourage the counselee to start with a tabula rasa within the cosy security of my parlour. The empty table is a process by which we authorise us to think as if all our certainties should be…
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Swedish Translation of Who Killed the Poet? – Launch 14 November 2019
Qui a tué le poète? continues its journey across the world. Now in Swedish language thanks to the publisher Palaver Press. If you are in Stockholm on November 14, join us for a launch party with 20 poets on stage and pianist Peter Knudsen at Landet.
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Philosophical Health International – Birth of a Network
Join today if you are qualified and interested: https://philosophical.health
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Why I Call it Ensemblance, rather than Assemblage (Deleuze) or Assembly (Butler)
Ensemblance The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps The theoretical message of the word ensemblance is quite simple: the book shows that discourses of ultra-unity in human ensembles are often ideological fabulations connected to nationalism, manipulation, groupthink, power coalitions, social control, political neo-romanticism, etc. These can be effective historically and socially because modern…
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