TNVP_The right moment

About this project:

You must change your life! But who could say that to whom? Our modern psyche is now so organised that we no longer let any authority tell us what we must do. And this is what my imperative title suggests: I have to change. Today’s life is an ambivalent experience anyway, and my arguments for a ‘good life’ are a narrative of personal experiences and fictional, archaeological conjectures – presented as a website with video, text and photography.

The bulky title:

The long, bulky title already gives the most important information about this website-project. Basically, it is about the question of how one can lead a good and proper life today, in 2021/22: free of fear, self-determined and self-responsible and integrated into the organism Earth. This is, of course, very complex and raises a multitude of considerations, which now, however, urgently require decisions. Because ‘my’ life can no longer be considered as a purely private ecology.

The separation of "I" and world in the Western tradition extends to the whole of society and its relationship to the environment. I have to come to a different understanding of this "I"...

Peter Sloterdijk

You Must Change Your Life written by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk is about the history and philosophy of practice across the planet as well as the development of Anthropotechnics. Originally published in Germany 2009.
http://www.covini.com/TNVP_short_introduction.html

The Prignitz

About the location:
The Prignitz in the north-west of Brandenburg, where this small village is located, is one of the most sparsely populated areas in Germany. A lonely landscape with rolling hills, heathland and meadows, small streams and lakes.
http://www.covini.com/TNVP_The_idea_of_a_village.html

From Paradise to Garden to Territory

Some thoughts on the transformation and the dealing with an old right. Inspired by/quoted from from:

Stuart Elden: The Birth of Territory
https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-stuart-elden-the-birth-of-territory

http://www.covini.com/TNVP_The_chapters.html

http://www.covini.com/TNVP_Stuart_Elden.html

Jochen Kleinschmidt: Functions and Consequences of Politcal Borders in World Society
PhD thesis, Munich: Universitätsbibliothek der LMU, published online:
http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16726/

The Invisible Committee: The coming insurrection
https://iberian-connections.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Coming-Insurrection-Semiotexte-Intervention-by-The-Invisible-Committee.pdf

James Lovelock: The Gaia Theory
Fritjof Capra: The Turning Point

http://www.covini.com/TNVP_The_right_moment.html

http://www.covini.com/TNVP_The_relevance_of_our_actions.html

http://www.covini.com/TNVP_introduction_to_parafication.html

Bazon Brock: Lustmarsch durchs Theoriegelände
Professor of Aesthetics and Cultural Mediation, "Thinker on duty", "Artist without work" and art theorist.
Brock is considered a representative of the Fluxus movement.

Jonathan Gómora Alarcón: Interview about the concept of territory
Jonathan Gómora Alcarón is a mexican geographer who teaches in Mexico City https://doaj.org/article/087b1a5f1ed94f31a4c7447ad61ff0c2
TNVP_interview_0.html

Dr. Manuel Clemens: Some thoughts on Adorno and Schiller
https://www.uni-vechta.de/kulturwissenschaften/clemens-manuel
TNVP_songs_for_dying_birds.html
http://covini.com/TNVP_short_introduction.html

Joseph Beuys: The Social Sculpture

Science and art are about the constant unfolding and development of the establishment of authority and individual authorship. As great Eurpoean achievement in world history, alongside the authority of the cultures and their obligations, there is also an authority and obligation of the individual.

The question of responsibility
and the pressure to act

Suddenly you are ready, but modernity remains unfinished because society still wants to increase the spectacle?
http://covini.com/TNVP_Are%20you%20ready.html

The New Village

The willingness to outrage has already greatly diminished. The familiar has become alien. Especially in the big city. The big city in the late capitalist social system is the epitome of demarcation, alienation and separation. Its inhabitants are equally disconnected from past and community. They experience, in an unmitigated form, the three fundamental coordinates of existence: finitude, loneliness, and being thrown - this is how the Invisible Committee described in 2007.

The Noble Savage

The socialization of people led to people comparing themselves with each other, which led to envy and resentment, gloating and arrogance, more appearance than reality, and conflicts of interest. And so on. But the idea of the "noble savage" was rejected by his contemporaries, especially since man was by nature burdened with original sin.
So the idea of great change has always been illusory. All problems we face today come from unleashed greed for life. The urge to survive is the driving force of evolution. Human beings to survive, we have a whole cascade of defense mechanisms in our immune system. This normally runs automatically.
Now the question is how the earth defends itself against us.
But back to Jean Jacques Rousseau.

The Self-portrait

The characteristic feature of a self-portrait is that it is created without outside help. And there is a small difference between the self-image, the ideal-image and the view of the others on me.
Western cultural techniques expanded the concept of the self-portrait. Now we are talking about selfies that evaporate in the echoes of the internet.

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