Leaping Cholla Podcast

In this episode we read section 15 and parts of section 16 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss what the “philosophy of a people” is, how that philosophy must belong to “its first, essential beginning” so as to keep the people from being “led into a distorted essence by an alleged people,”...

In Ep 18 we finish Section 14 and its emphasis on the difference between philosophy and worldview, which, as Heidegger says, are so opposite no image can even capture their difference for that image would bring them closer than they truly are. This distinction between philosophy and worldview, we discover, is echoed in the distinctions...

In Ep 17 we discuss restraint as “an openness for the reticent nearness of the essential occurrence of beyng” and “the most remote trembling of appropriative intimations out of the remoteness of the undecidable.” We also look at the way in which words failing us is our arrival at the first leap, the juxtaposition of...

In Ep 16 we read section 13 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss restraint as the basic disposition of Dasein, look at how restraint gives way to the silence and stillness that allows the appropriation by beyng (giving us access to the dominion of the last gods where being is opened and...

In Ep 15 we focus on story vs. non-story. How do you keep a child away from story? How do you teach them non-story? We also look at Heidegger’s redefinition of history as appropriation of Dasein by Beyng, how “history” and “story” are the same word in German (Geschichte), and several ways you can free...

In Ep 14 we go over some of the book’s core terms (Dasein, Grounding, Beyng, History), after which we discuss the distortions of Shanahan’s views on IVF as an example of historiology, Truth U vs SJU as defined by Haidt as an example of our critique of liberalism’s trend toward historiology, and the question of...

In Ep 13 we read about Dasein as the site of strife between earth (self) and world (identity), about Beyng as grounded in the abyss of time-space, about how being that is under the domination of the abandonment by being comes to be or not be according to its immediate graspability, usability and serviceability to...

In Ep 12 we read section 8 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss the distinction between earth/self and world/identity, the other beginning as a domain of decision, story vs. history, self-renunciation vs. self-annunciation, how to know if you’re thinking, infinite possibility vs. historical possibility, and the courage to step out of the...

In Ep 11 of Leaping Cholla Podcast we read about surpassing the objectively present determining transcendence that assumes the human being is already known, discuss the connection between Event and Beyng and what the changing of that one letter (Being – Beyng) might mean, and thrill at the urgency of feeling alien to the “light...

In Ep 10 of Leaping Cholla we read about the remoteness of the last god in the place of the highest decision, the possibility that there won’t be events or history in the other beginning, and the four worldviews that emerge from our understanding of transcendence – 1) as the god of christianity, 2) as...

It’s dark in the yurt, and we’re working through the basic disposition of the other beginning, realizing how to renounce the refusal of Beyng is to possess it, exploring the mixolydian connotations of Erahnung, questioning anxiety as inferential confusion, and wondering about the proclivity to call certain persons “flawed.” Available here or on Spotify or...

In Episode 8 of the Leaping Cholla Podcast we discuss the unique simplicity of the thoughtful moment, the intimations and withdrawals in which the last god comes and goes, the importance of inkling over wonder, and we finish with the reading of a list of actions that Kirk made, called “the Heideggerian solution to insomnia,”...

In Ep 7 of Leaping Cholla Podcast we discuss the taking of byways through the indirectness of the effects of philosophy, the appropriation of Dasein by the turning of the Event, the empty calories of lived experience, and the passing by of the Last God toward which our stillness is disposed as we seek the...

In Ep 6 of Leaping Cholla we continue reading through the challenging Section 5 of Contributions to Philosophy (of The Event). Discussed here are the importance of restraint in determining the style of inceptual thinking in the other beginning, the trained compulsion to presence all phenomenon, the prooflessness of philosophical propositions due to the transformation...

Episode 5 of the Leaping Cholla Podcast dives into section 5 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger with discussions on “presencing” as Derrida explains it in his book on Heidegger, what “originarily historical” thinking is, and how philosophy is strange because it is “the self establishing and being transformed immediately into relations...

In Episode 4 of The Leaping Cholla Podcast we read section 3 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Martin Heidegger, which presents his early outline of the six dynamic elements of the liberationist template at the spine of the book: the resonating, the interplay, the leap, the grounding, the future ones, and the...

In our third episode, we read Section 2 of the book and talk about the question of the truth of Beyng, the hollowness of the constancy of Being, the overpowering of humans by a semblance of the Gigantic, and then we head out into a discussion of some of the issues surrounding Heidegger’s involvement with...

We start reading the book, Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), one sentence at a time. We wrestle with what is most question-worthy and its avoidance, the assumptions of the metaphysical transition, and the difference between Beyng and Being. We also talk about identity vs. self, the machinations of story, and the appropriative tendencies of...

In our inaugural episode, we both give some backstory on how we discovered Heidegger, discuss the experiences that led to his philosophy resonating with us, and delineate our hopes for what understanding him might mean for ourselves and others. Available here or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.