Martin Heidegger

  • Het Thuis van de Mens

    Soms kom je ergens een artikel tegen dat je jaren geleden schreef en niet onaardig is.

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  • Cursus: Filosofie voor de kunstenaar

    Cursus praktische filosofie als een hulpmiddel richting autonoom kunstenaarschap.

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  • Comment – 12 Years a Slave

    Is it possible to comment on something, when one only has a specific point of view? Possible in the sense of positively existing, non-superfluous. Are words lost, like so many moments fleeting in time, thoughts formed by the world, by what is already known, instead of forming the world. Still, the value is in the…

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  • Dichtend Realiter – Een Fenomenologisch Verstaan van Lucebert

    Enkele delen uit een langer artikel dat ik in 2010 schreef voor een vak Wijsgerige Ethiek, gegeven door Chris Bremmers. Omdat het mijn kijk op kunst toch nog steeds goed verwoord… Dichtend Realiter – een fenomenologisch verstaan van Lucebert Kunst kan gezien worden als de vertolking van de meest fundamentele ervaringen uit het menselijk leven.…

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  • Experience Philosophy By Letting Go

    Attempting to read Deleuze, I hit upon this quote, of someone trying to explain why one should read Deleuze: “…do not bother trying to comprehend or understand the text.  A desire for that level of control will only hinder your ability to experience it, use it, think it, and become it.” (Christopher Higgs) From experience,…

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  • Consequence of Writing in English

    I often wonder which language I should use. I used to be obsessed by the English language, trying to learn it as fast and as good as I could. Until I realised that whatever I would do, I would never be considered a native speaker, even when my command of that language would be well-above…

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  • Hot hot hot

    Today was a good day. First a meeting with a friend, to brainstorm about some voluntary work we’re doing at a school with the goal of challenging the 16-19 year olds to think about the meaning of life and start taking responsibility for their own lifes. The last meeting there had made the both of…

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