The term biopolitics was coined by the french philosopher Michel Foucault and further developed by the italien philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Both describe the almost hopeless situation in which the individual today is at the mercy of the state's advanced techniques of rule. Both are important…

The modern Concept of freedom leads to nothing, in the literal sense. In the absolutely realized independence I would even be independent of my self, it dissolves into nothing. Originally, freedom meant belonging to the loved ones, not independence. Freya is a goddess associated with…

From the very beginning, Pythagoras saw in everyone who eats meat a potential murderer. And not a few vegans today see in a carnivore hardly any difference to a cannibal. There are currently more and more vegans who do not eat meat for ethical reasons,…

For Anna Kalis In the beginning there was sex. Then came madness. The madness spoke: Let there be light. And behold, it was his boy. And he had become a stranger to him. Animismus and Monotheismus Cynics are dialecticians. The world is, thank God, in…

In order to understand this sentence of Jesus, (but which could also have been written by Nietzsche) it is first necessary to detach oneself, at least for a moment, from the idea that Jesus was the God that Paul constructed from him, but to imagine…

"Aber irgendwie legst du es auch darauf an". This phrase has been hitting me regularly for over 40 years and each time it hits like a 9 millimeter bullet almost to the heart. Not fatal but painful. They fired you? There's a hatestorm going on…

Jesus of Nazareth was a Cynic. There is no doubt about that at all. And the reason I mention him so often is that he was the only Cynic to have a significant number of disciples. It is precisely because hardly any of his students…

Paul taught the fear to do, suffer or tolerate evil. This fear is still the basis of all rulership today. Without this fear there would be no racism, no states, no patriarchy. Cynics fear no sin no hubris. Embrace every opportunity of power that comes…

For Cynics, as for Romantics, especially Novalis, truth is to be found just as much in the infinite universe as in our infinite interior. In his incomplete novel, "The Disciples at Sais" he shows different ways to approach the truth of our nature. The cynical…

If that were true, then we would be hedonists. But Epicurus' hedonism was the countermovement to eudaimonic ethics in ancient Greece. Not eudaemonia, but desire would be the greatest goal of cynics. The devil is in the details The devil - and I mean this…