Our (more than just a) catalogue for the exhibition “DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull and the ars combinatoria,” (ZKM Karlsruhe) now available at University of Minnesota Press. With lots of text (one by me, Llull-Leibniz-Cage stuffed together) and a couple of images.
DIA-LOGOS. Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019
Edited by Amador Vega, Peter Weibel & Siegfried Zielinski
Design by Stefanie Rau & Robert Preusse (operative.space)
The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide.
The primary idea of Ramon Llull’s teachings—to enable rational and therefore trustworthy dialogue between cultures and religions through a universally valid system of symbols—is today still topical and of great relevance, especially in the tensions prevailing in globalized spaces of possibility. In this book, international experts address Lullism as a remarkable and distinctive method of thinking and experimenting.
