The first layer in the book consists of a chronicle after the chaos of the millennium wars in Castalia, a pedagogical province in the country of Waldzell, a secular state enjoying peace and prosperity. There is probably less trivia in the blogsphere than in the mainstream media pages.But without any materiality of suitable existence how can one sustain responsibility for one‘s words, written or oral? How can people say what they mean and mean what they say? In short, to what does the global language of the Internet refer to? Both can be found in our cultural landscape of knowledge distribution networks and social media. Its culture critic describes a world ‘feuilletonistic‘ media culture contrasted by one of sterile scholarship without impact to real life.
The Book “Glass Bead Game” is a fascinating prophesy of modern life as well as a classic of Jungian influenced literature. The novel takes place in the distant the future, in a world that has passed beyond what is described as the feuilletonistic age (that is, of course the postmodern and post-metaphysical society) in which culture is trivialized and no difference exits between truth and lies anymore. Hesse describes the rules as such: „ These rules, the sign language and grammar of the game, represent a kind of highly developed secret language, in which several sciences and arts, in particular mathematics and music (or the science of music) participate which are able to express the contents and results of practically all of the sciences and relate them to each other.“ It occurred to me, that the purpose (or curiosity) of some my activities in the blogshhere is devoted to relate different topics too. It thus aims towards all those fields of the sciences and arts which are available as the inventory of human orientation. Its length is not prohibitive but the paragraphs are all dense and descriptive.This essay will mainly focus on the Glass Bead Game, which encompasses all intellectual and mental activity of humans within the worldly environment. The book, also published under the title ” Magister Ludi”, after its principal character, is a beautiful but not an easy read.
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