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Preparing for the second month in The Portal focused on Christianity in Transition: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transition

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This video is a conversation Conversation with Jim Palmer, Brendan Graham Dempsey on "De/Reconstruction" inspired by our upcoming seminar series in The Portal on "Christianity in Transition". To learn more: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transition

https://philosophyportal.substack.com/p/emerging-church-capitalist-religion Conversation time stamps:  Beyond the Emerging Church w/ Rob Zahn, Kevin Crouse (0:09) Capitalist Religion w/  Helen Rollins (1:07:33) Genesis Experience w/  Timothee Bres, Pamela von Sabljar (2:25:20) Reflecting Marxism & Politics w/ Rebecca Rose Prentice (3:26:19) Throughout the first conversation we are thinking tow...

Discussion with philosopher Slavoj Žižek focused on his latest book Christian Atheism.

Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimension of religion. The third episode hosts Javier Rivera, philosopher and writer attempting to think.

This discussion features psychoanalyst Duane Rousselle and theologian Mark Gerard Murphy to discuss their new edited volume Negativity in Psychoanalysis.

Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimensions of religion. The second episode features Peter Robinson, the CTO of an Australian tech start-up, Tribees, but finds time to explore his philosophical interests in the relationship between reason and intuition, and between the intellectual and the existential.

Nina Power and I discuss her book What Do Men Want? (2023) which focuses on some of the contemporary issues that specifically center around masculinity and male identity.

Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimension of religion. The first episode hosts Jacob Kishere, creator of Sensespace, a project that focuses on unfolding dialogues related to Insight, Wisdom & Healing. https://philosophyportal.online/

This conversation with Samuel McCormick is the second in a series titled "Reading Lacan's Ecrits". The first conversation prepared Philosophy Portal for teaching Lacan's Ecrits, and this second conversation opens up a post-course reflection and a deeper ritual conversation inspired by Lacan's writings.

In this discussion, David, Ann and I discuss the importance of thinking The Idea of the University in the contemporary neoliberal and digitised political-economic landscape.  The Idea of the University is a book by existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers, and written to serve an educational reconstruction project in post-World War II Germany.  Now we discuss this book in our historical c...

Johannes A. Niederhauser argues that death is a central notion in Martin Heidegger’s work on the questions being and time, and even takes us to the core of Heidegger's entire thinking path.  Thus, Heidegger is not merely approaching death as an existentialist problem, of how to become authentically mortal.  Heidegger is suggesting that the abstract concealment and exploitation of death i...

G.W.F Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is often conceived as Hegel's classic work, and one of the most important texts in the history of philosophy.  How are we to conceive of this work?  This question can be framed in many ways: How are we to understand the procedure or methods by which it was written?  What are the main concepts that define this work and how are we to think of thes...

The commons is an ancient social structure of allowing for the exchange of value.  The act of commoning can be defined as the act of exchanging with the ‘whole’ (i.e. doing something for the self as part of a larger tribe, clan, family, rather than for the self itself).  Throughout the history of human civilization more complex structural layers for exchanging value have been built on to...

There is an excess which repeats most easily when not observed (it does not want to be observed?).  This excess is its own knowledge as the center of enjoyment and truth of identity.  Of relevance to our on-going discussion, the excess seems to appear most deeply at the site of lack.  Being in touch with this experiential knowing seems primal, and brings one to sites or drives of th...

Metaphysics concerns the study of first principles of being (e.g. identity, change, space, time, causality, necessity, possibility).  In other words, whereas physics studies the physical world, metaphysics is the study of the fundamental categories we use to make sense of the world in the first place.  For example, Isaac Newton structured much of modern physics with his system of categor...

The dating landscape used to be generally regulated by a traditional-normative symbolic structure which organized society towards a more-or-less clear value-form: marriage/pair-bonding.  The modern dating landscape has largely lost this symbolic structure, and consequently, it has become extremely complex and confusing: a disorienting digital marketplace of wild drives and images disconnected...

We feel the lack of an absolute being, and reality itself seems to lack as a split between atom/void.  Here we play with the imaginary of the mind which exists in this split between nothing and everything: what would it look like if we could “subtract lack” or “become lack" and “connect to the absolute”?  Would we be “fucking everything”?  Would we exist in a “giant social orgy”? &n...

We started our first discourse on lack in the context of the origin of philosophy in the Parmenidean presupposition of absolute being banishing the void; and its relationship to the emergence of psychoanalysis as a discipline that operates by necessity in the void of subjectivity.  In our second discourse, I propose to shift our context to Democritus, and his atomist ontology, which we may sa...

Absolute Knowledge is a notoriously difficult and confusing concept in Hegel’s philosophy (and yet represents the name of the last chapter of his masterwork Phenomenology of Spirit). Here I attempt to frame the discourse by discussing the experiences I had in my maturation as an intellect in relation to evolutionary and religious philosophies about “absolute knowing”.  Evolutionary...

Philosophy is a discipline classically concerned with "Being", or the presence of Something.  Why is there Something rather than Nothing?  However, after more than a century of psychoanalysis, we may say that the human subject is an entity of Lack, or that Lacks.  Thus, the human subject is a Being constituted by a contradictory identity, constantly attempting to fill in the persist...

The second discourse on masculinity and masculine movements shifts exploration from the red pill community and the connection between masculinity and religion, towards an ethics of action, or general principles, that would possibly help ground real masculine movements in the 21st century. We speculate that a key to these ethics and principles can be found in the coincidence between men who have tr...

In the second trialogue on gender trouble/theory we attempt to shift focus from alternatives to binary classification schemes (i.e. triadic, quadratic, or complexified categorization schemes) to the impossibility or the problem at the core of gender itself (i.e. that no categorization scheme "works", as it were, to solve the human relation to sexuality).  Thus, an idea is explored that what w...

In the second trialogue on the evolutionary versus religious worldview we attempt to build on our original notions that a synthesis between evolutionary and religious worldviews can be found in the fact that religions themselves evolve. In order to build on this notion we explore the possibility that not only do religions evolve, but that religions lead to their own form of transcendental evolutio...