Series description: What is Logos XXI: The Rise of the One? For starters, an epic didactic drama: a fusion of education and spectacle, which is epic in length (the actual duration is forecasted to be the equivalent of one semester of lectures) and scope (= ground covered). Now, how could a project of this size possibly be explained in a few paragraphs? Perhaps, only by alluding to high level themes of both the inspiration which led to its realization and the actual content of the epos. Since Plato, a pioneer of didactic drama, that is, philosophical theatre, is one of the main influences, let’s reduce the author of this project to nothing but an imitator: someone who cannot help, but copy forms of representation. So, what are the existent, historical forms which are being amalgamated into this (literally) moving collage? Clearly, Plato’s form of representation itself (dialogue), but Logos XXI goes all the way back to and thru the biblical form of telling and showing. At last, the title alludes as much to the epic line “in the beginning was the word (= logos)” as to one of the original developers of the idea of ‘logos’: Heraclitus, the philosopher of paradox, of coincidentia oppositorum, of the conflict and unity of opposites, of dark and light, war and peace, truth and illusion, love and hatred, fun and seriousness, levity and gravity, practice and theory, reality and illusion. To put it simply, the poetic substrate of Logos XXI can be defined as Greco-Judeo-Christian. But, what else is on the list of the imitator? Naturally, many of those who followed this very same current of thought and fiction. Dante? Certainly. Meister Eckhart? Yes. Blake? Definitely. Hegel? Sure. Tolkien? Of course! Wittgenstein? Jung? Star Wars? Batman? Joker? The Matrix? Eminem and Slim Shady? Why the hell not?! At last, what is Christian story-telling, if not centered around a conflict of opposites? And yet, Logos XXI would not be Logos XXI, if it was behind its time and had not dealt with the ‘Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ and the guy who went mad trying to move beyond good and evil. So, anti-Christian, Nietzschean, it is. But, Nietzsche was anti-Plato, so how, if at all, can such unholy union be imitated? Well, paradox rules: in XXI, God returns as Joker with a formula of absolute logic and as Dictator with a vision of the Kingdom of the One. And as king. The series starts with a divine peace offering presented by Walter Theodor Feuergeist aka God’s Joker and “GOAT”, followed by David Donnerstein’s declaration of the Final World War: the Platonic Führer must redeem his fathers.
Old Description: Logos XXI is an epic didactic drama continuing the history of Western Thought with the return of the One. In Level 1, God's Joker presents David Donnerstein's peace-offering: a philosophical reaction to the pronunciation of the Final Solution to the Human Question which was triggered by the technologically-enframed Western Mind. In Level 2, David Donnerstein declares the Final World War, before he joins his brother and propaganda minister on The One Podcast to announce his utopia and remake of Plato's Republic. While no background in philosophy is necessarily needed, the series draws as much on the works of Plato, Nietzsche, Jung or Wittgenstein as on the poetics of Dante, William Blake or Fernando Pessoa. Form and content are further influenced by comics, rap and 21st century cinema (i.e. Tarantino). The series is hierarchically ordered and will feature a total of eight levels. Level 1 may be considered the optional background, the subterranean dimension, if you will, to the edifice which will be mapped out in Level 2 to then be raised in an exponentially increasing manner.