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Philosophy Portal
by Cadell Last
This is a podcast that seeks to bring philosophy into the Real qua Impossible, that is: the little piece of the present moment that resists our desire.
Episodes
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CHRISTIANITY IN TRANSITION (w/ Christian Baxter)
Preparing for the second month in The Portal focused on Christianity in Transition: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transition
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Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy (w/ Stijn Vanheule)
To join the next two months at The Portal focused on Christianity in Transition, see: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transitionOr get involved by joining The Portal: https://philosophyportal.online/event-space--Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy:...
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De/Reconstruction with Jim Palmer, Brendan Graham Dempsey
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
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Emerging Church, Capitalist Religion, Genesis Experience, Marxism & Politics (w/ Rob Zahn, Kevin Crouse, Helen Rollins, Timothee Bres, Pamela von Salbjar, Rebecca Rose Prentice) / The Portal Feb 2025
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 &...
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Christian Atheism (w/ Slavoj Žižek)
Discussion with philosopher Slavoj Žižek focused on his latest book Christian Atheism.
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Singularities (03) ft. Javier Rivera
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.
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Negativity in Psychoanalysis (w/ Duane Rousselle, Mark Gerard Murphy)
This discussion features psychoanalyst Duane Rousselle and theologian Mark Gerard Murphy to discuss their new edited volume Negativity in Psychoanalysis.
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Singularities (02) ft. Peter Robinson
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…
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What Do Men Want? (w/ Nina Power)
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.
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Singularities (01) ft. Jacob Kishere
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/
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Reading Lacan's Ecrits (Part 2)
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...
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The Idea of the University (w/ David McKerracher, Ann Snelgrove of Theory Underground)
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...
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Death and World Grounding (w/ Johannes A. Niederhauser)
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…
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What is the "Phenomenology of Spirit"? (w/ Mika Leinonen, Eric Jobe, Chetan Anand)
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...
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Thinking the Commons: Tribe in the Internet Age (w/ Michel Bauwens & Alexander Bard)
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...
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Philosophy of Lack (#3) (w/ O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, Alexander Ebert): Excess
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...
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Return to Metaphysics: How to Think Our Being? (w/ Alexander Bard, O.G. Rose, Alexander Elung)
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...
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Modern Dating and Romantic Relationships (w/ Javier Rivera)
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...
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Philosophy of Lack (#2.5) (w/ Alexander Ebert): Prelude to Perfection
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...
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Philosophy of Lack (#2) (w/ O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, Alexander Ebert): Materialism
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...
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Absolute Knowledge (w/ O.G. Rose)
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...
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Philosophy of Lack (#1) (w/ O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, Alexander Ebert): Foundations
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...
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Sex, Masculinity, God (1.5): Masculinity & Masculine Movements
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...
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Sex, Masculinity, God (1.4): Gender Theory/Trouble
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...
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Sex, Masculinity, God (1.3): Evolutionary versus Religious Worldviews
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...
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Pathological Evolution (#2) (w/ Raven Connolly): Biological Reproduction and Religious Belief
The most advanced pre-modern civilizations (historical societies) were built on metaphysical presuppositions that we call “religious”. Modern secular society questioned these presuppositions on scientific (and often evolutionary) grounds. The main difference between the religious and scientific...
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Tribal Singularity (#2) (w/ Alexander Bard & Elung): Digging into Transcendental Emergentism
In this conversation I host Alexander Bard and Alexander Elung to discuss the philosophy of "transcendental emergentism" and its relation to the future of philosophy, science and community. Transcendental emergentism is a notion that attempts to escape both simplistic reductions to scientific...
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Noopolitik (#1) (w/ Daniel Fraga & Owen Cox): Mental Warfare in the Global Economy
In this trialogue we attempt to introduce the notion of "Noopolitik" or "politics of the noosphere". In the 20th century, the birth of our global world was mediated by two mega powers and their economic methods (i.e. United States and capitalism (first world); Soviet Union and communism (second...
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Emancipation After Hegel (w/ Todd McGowan)
In this discussion we are going to be diving into the notion of freedom after the introduction of Hegelian philosophy. We will be probing into the consequence of Hegel's philosophy for contradiction, motion, identity, and religion. This discourse will be based on and inspired by McGowan's own...
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Sex, Masculinity, God (1.2): Historical Emergence of Traditional Archetypes
In the second trialogue on the Historical Emergence of Traditional Archetypes we shift attention from the historical conditions for the emergence of archetypes, and move more towards attempting to understand the source of the virtual potential that could shape other identities in new historical...
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Tribal Singularity (#1) (w/ Alexander Bard): Mapping Patriarchy and Matriarchy in the Internet Age
The "map is not the territory" is a common mantra in the deconstructive post-modern age. However, without maps, we lose all our capacity to orient and organize our social lives. For example, the traditional world had clear maps of man, woman and their possible relations, which allowed for the...
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Pathological Evolution (#1) (w/ Raven Connolly): Unconscious Desire, Social Tensions
The idea of evolution transformed science (Darwin); the idea of pathos transformed psychology (Freud). Discussing "pathological evolution" is necessary today because our global society is changing faster than ever, and this change is going to involve a deep confrontation with our self: what do we...
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Last and Guner (#1): Why Microdose?
In this episode (originally streamed in the 21-Day Meditation Challenge Facebook group), we set the foundation covering the concept of psychedelics in history and present day. There is a new emerging bio-science that uses psychedelics in sub-perceptible doses to improve basic cognitive…
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The Enlightenment Gap (#2) (w/ Gregg Henriques): Modern Philosophy of Psychology
This conversation is attempting to build on our notion of an "Enlightenment Gap" emergent in the scientific universe between matter/mind (i.e. mind/body problem), science/society (i.e. social construction). Here we attempt to dive deeper into the foundations of modern philosophy as it relates to...
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Sex, Masculinity, God (1.1): The Reality of Sexual Difference
In the second trialogue on sexual difference we focus on its nature as that which precedes the emergence of the different sexes (“a difference which precedes a difference”). In this affirmation pre-identity different we attempt to understand its consequence for the way we construct and relate in...
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The Enlightenment Gap (#1) (w/ Gregg Henriques): Identifying the Problem
This conversation is introducing the idea of the "Enlightenment Gap" as a problem emergent to the scientific universe. Here we define the problem as the still unresolved relation between matter and mind, and between science and society. In short, when we enter the scientific universe the nature…
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This is a podcast that seeks to bring philosophy into the Real qua Impossible, that is: the little piece of the present moment that resists our desire.
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Philosophy Portal is created and hosted by Cadell Last.
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