It all begins with a film by Godard whose musical score has its strange ways of meandering between the film’s on and off. What’s that music? Because we have lost our responsiveness, our direct connection to the world as a function of reality, we have to pursue the path of this question. As we don’t have the answer, it keeps us going, with Gertrude Stein, with Franz Kafka, pointing us to a way of thinking that circulates, diffuses, expands and, like a melody, takes hold of spaces and persons, turning them into the variables of an interaction in line with this thought. There is no pregiven way of understanding reality. Hence the chance of writing or living, of a music that disperses us and accords us in our differences, in order to correspond to us more precisely. And more beautifully. Speaker Eva Meyer, the 2018 Eberhard Berent Goethe Chair, is a philosopher, writer, and filmmaker based in Berlin. She has been a visiting professor at various universities and art schools, most recently at Universität Basel in Switzerland.
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