Herwig Egon Casadoro-Kopp

A conversation about games, brains, storytelling & bears…

Only with language, you can tell stories. And the way you use language to tell your stories will change how you perceive these stories.” Wait what? Listen to games:net Berlin Europe Podcast of May 2022 hosted by Florian Masuth & Simon Ohler ...

What is real?

The truth about the brain, reality & fictuality of human understanding I boldly claim here, that ultimately, there is no brain, there is no reality, no truth, no continuity other than convenient and inconvenient fiction we live by. Only stories ...

love & fandango

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) usually – but not rightfully – conflated with Molières Don Juan (1665) could be standing much more for romantic love than he superficially is given credit for. In Heinz von Sauter´s prolific and more accurate ...

Weitermachen! Demonstration!

October, 3rd, 2019, a Thursday – Day of German Unification / Tag der Deutschen Einheit Weitermachen! Continue. Visiting Herbert Marcuse, Gottlieb Fichte, who rests next to Hegel and not far from Brecht & Heinrich Mann. Marcuse, who fled 1933 from ...

The more poetic, the truer

The poet, author, mystic, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism, Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801) also know by his pen-name Novalis has the key. His death at only 28 and his writing largely ignored by the ...

Bindu

Don’t be fooled if right-wing esoteric confusion tries to usurp a symbol being thousands of years old. They tried this before. Let’s not let them. Look into the sun, the eye in the sky. Look at the devotional dot between the eyes of Hindus. ...

Make-up lifestyle

The make-up, the gloss-over, the design of a lifestyle in samples (of course not continuous or for real) the “aestheticization of everyday life in social media…has leeched the authority of image-making from mass media and from art” (critic Brian ...

Sameness Expanded

Sunday / when you stare into the sky / opening the senses / small revelations may fly in… …that you decide between sameness and the other. All the time / That this makes up your world / Is it necessarily the only choice you have? Or do you control what is ...