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Peter Rollins - The Archive

by Peter Rollins

This is an archive of various talks and reflections that Peter has given in recent years. The archive is constantly being updated with old and new material, so subscribe to be kept up to date.

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  1. Hymns to Nothing | Orpheus, Euripides and the Art of Lament

    Hymns to Nothing | Orpheus, Euripides and the Art of Lament by Peter Rollins

  2. Death of God Super Club | Live in LA | Part 1

    I wanted to share with you the audio from the first half of The Death of God Supper Club. The second half wasn't recorded, as it was an interactive circle. I want to thank the following people: Gene and Deedie Street for providing food and financial support for the event. Alec Ekvall for creating…

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  3. Trash of the World | In Defence of Non-Identity Politics

    Trash of the World | In Defence of Non-Identity Politics by Peter Rollins

  4. Beyond the Fetish | Faith and the Contradiction

    Beyond the Fetish | Faith and the Contradiction by Peter Rollins

  5. Belief, Knowledge and the Fetish

    Belief, Knowledge and the Fetish by Peter Rollins

  6. The Pervert's Guide to Church | Between Knowledge and Belief

    The Pervert's Guide to Church | Between Knowledge and Belief by Peter Rollins

  7. Encountering the Hysterical Absolute

    Encountering the Hysterical Absolute by Peter Rollins

  8. The Death Drive Denomination | Pyrotheology and Future Church

    In this talk I clarify the theory and technology of Pyrotheology using the Lacanian ideas of Demand, Desire and Drive

  9. Wake Festival

    Wake Festival by Peter Rollins

  10. The Positive Side of Negativity | Nothing Lives, Nothing Binds, Nothing Saves

    The Positive Side of Negativity | Nothing Lives, Nothing Binds, Nothing Saves by Peter Rollins

  11. Ideological Enjoyment

    Ideological Enjoyment by Peter Rollins

  12. Don't Steal What You Don't Understand: Religion as Belief and Function

    Don't Steal What You Don't Understand: Religion as Belief and Function by Peter Rollins

  13. Liminal Space | A Conversation with Photographer Steven Wilson

    Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/7DFNLJZv5YU See the Kickstarter here: https://www.stephenwilsonphotography.com/liminal-book-k

  14. The Power of Negative Thinking with Julie Reshe

    A conversation about Negative Psychoanalysis and Pyrotheology

  15. Atheism for Lent Information

    Atheism for Lent Information by Peter Rollins

  16. Coffee and Concepts | Prohibition of Prohibition

    Coffee and Concepts | Prohibition of Prohibition by Peter Rollins

  17. The Contradiction Seminar | Part 2 | The Liturgy of Lack

    The Contradiction Seminar | Part 2 | The Liturgy of Lack by Peter Rollins

  18. The Contradiction Seminar | Part 3 | With Barry Taylor

    The Contradiction Seminar | Part 3 | With Barry Taylor by Peter Rollins

  19. They Live

    They Live by Peter Rollins

  20. The Contradiction Seminar | Part 1 | The Freaked-out Fundamentalist and the Hysterical God

    Part 1 of a 5 part Seminar on the Church of the Contradiction.

  21. Life After Death

    Life After Death by Peter Rollins

  22. Church of the Contradictioon

    This was a talk as part of an event to mark the launch of a zine from Everyday Analysis on Religion, Marxism and Psychoanalysis. Everyday Analysis produces digital interventions that aim to tactically sabotage the prevailing ideological edifice in the name of a negative universal that undermines...

  23. Grace

    Grace by Peter Rollins

  24. Ideology and Alienation: Self-Help vs. Grace

    Ideology and Alienation: Self-Help vs. Grace by Peter Rollins

  25. They Live

    Every month on my Patreon, we discuss a movie. This month I talk about They Live

  26. The Unknowing God

    An event in LA with special guests Elliott Morgan, Ryan Nicodemus, Lisa and Michael Gungor and James Spaite

  27. Seminar 1 | Structuring Pensées

    This is the first talk in my Pascal Course. Here I outline what Pascal is setting out to achieve in his famous Pensées. The course starts on 25th June and is open to everyone signed up to Blaze on my Patreon.

  28. Pyrotheology and Psychedelics

    This is a conversation I had with philosopher Cadell Last, exploring the world of psychedelics.

  29. Exposure | Riders of Justice

    Every month on my Patreon, some of us watch a movie and discuss it. This month I facilitated a conversation on the excellent action comedy Riders of Justice.

  30. Atheism for Lent | Part 7 | God as Present Absence

    Atheism for Lent | Part 7 | God as Present Absence by Peter Rollins

  31. Atheism for Lent | Part 6 | God as Groundless

    Atheism for Lent | Part 6 | God as Groundless by Peter Rollins

  32. Atheism for Lent | Part 4 | God is US

    Atheism for Lent | Part 4 | God is US by Peter Rollins

  33. Atheism for Lent | Part 3 | God IS Not

    Atheism for Lent | Part 3 | God IS Not by Peter Rollins

  34. Atheism for Lent | Part 2 | God is NOT

    Atheism for Lent | Part 2 | God is NOT by Peter Rollins

  35. Atheism for Lent | Part 1 | God IS

    Atheism for Lent | Part 1 | God IS by Peter Rollins

  36. A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 3

    A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 3 by Peter Rollins

  37. If God Does Not Exist, is Everything Permissible?

    If God Does Not Exist, is Everything Permissible? by Peter Rollins

  38. Fascist Hippies and Totalitarian Mystics

    Fascist Hippies and Totalitarian Mystics by Peter Rollins

  39. A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 2

    A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 2 by Peter Rollins

  40. A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 1

    A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 1 by Peter Rollins

  41. Wake Hangout | Into the Unknown

    On this livestream I'm joined by various people who have been involved with Wake to discuss the unknown in politics, culture and religion. Joining myself and Adam is author and speaker Jay Bakker, author and public intellectual Alfie Bown, artist Jonny McEwen and writer, director and public...

  42. The Church that Believes in Nothing

    In this Pyroseminar I look at tradition ideology, its critique and the the critique of critique. Sadly some of the seminar was lost due to an audio issue, but I recorded most of it.

  43. Desire

    Every month I run a Coffee and Concepts event on Patreon. In this one we discuss the nature of desire, its connection to religion and how all this connects with the work and world of Pyrotheology

  44. Superego

    Every Sunday on Patreon I run different events. One of them is Coffee and Concepts, where I take a concept from me previous seminar and discuss it. This is part of a conversation on the Superego. The first 10 minutes was not recorded. Jojn my Patreon to get 100's of hours of talks, courses and...

  45. The Lacanian Subject

    This is a clip from a book study on my Patreon about the book The Lacanian Subject by Bruce Fink

  46. The Last Supper

    In this segment from Wake 2021, I answer some questions from people taking part in the event.

  47. Coffee and Concepts | The Master's Discourse

    Coffee and Concepts is a monthly Patreon event. In this one we talk about Desire and the Master's Discourse

  48. Living Flowers (with Adam Turkington)

    In this snippet from day three of Wake 2021 I chat with Adam Turkington about all things pyro.

  49. Impurity Culture

    In this segment from day 3 of Wake 2021 I introduce a critique of our modern secular purity culture.

  50. Transformance Art

    In this segment from Wake 2021 I talk about Transformance Art with the sociologist Gladys Ganiel.

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This is an archive of various talks and reflections that Peter has given in recent years. The archive is constantly being updated with old and new material, so subscribe to be kept up to date.

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