Not with a bang

Whispers for the mind, body, and soul

Mar 10, 2025

Dear wonderers,

Recent events reminded me how short of a time we have here. So, to paraphrase a thinker I can’t remember right now, let’s see how much living we can squeeze into our impermanent existence.

A short edition that invites you to stop and smell the proverbial flowers with one meaningful (I hope!) recommendation:

#ToSee

Thanks to IZANAGI - Japanese film festival, I saw this beautiful, melancholic film about searching for your “true colours” — through music, friendship, and spirituality. It’s a coming-of-age story with stunning visuals in watercolour, especially blue and green (you’ll see why).

My take? Never forget to question why you do what you do and search for meaningful experiences.

#ToRead

Another recent discovery: Stiegler and his philosophy of technology. Because we forget that the status quo of technology today is, still, a human construct — that can be negotiated & changed:

“By the start of the 1970s, a growing number of philosophers and political theorists began calling into question the immediacy of our lived experience. The world around us was no longer seen by these thinkers as something that was simply given, as it had been for phenomenologists such as Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl. The world instead presented itself as a built environment composed of things such as roads, power plants and houses, all made possible by political institutions, cultural practices and social norms. And so, reality also appeared to be a construction, not a given.”

“How we consume music, the paths we take to get from point A to point B, how we share ourselves with others, all of these aspects of daily life have been reshaped by new technologies and the humans that produce them. Yet we rarely stop to reflect on what this means for us. Stiegler believed this act of forgetting creates a deep crisis for all facets of human experience. By forgetting, we lose our all-important capacity to imagine alternative ways of living. The future appears limited, even predetermined, by new technology.”