Philosophy Portal
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
CHRISTIANITY IN TRANSITION (w/ Christian Baxter)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Preparing for the second month in The Portal focused on Christianity in Transition: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transition
Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy (w/ Stijn Vanheule)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To join the next two months at The Portal focused on Christianity in Transition, see: https://philosophyportal.online/christianity-in-transitionOr get...
De/Reconstruction with Jim Palmer, Brendan Graham Dempsey
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This video is a conversation Conversation with Jim Palmer, Brendan Graham Dempsey on "De/Reconstruction" inspired by our upcoming seminar se...
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
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
https://philosophyportal.substack.com/p/emerging-church-capitalist-religionConversation time stamps: Beyond the Emerging Church w/ Rob Zahn, Kevin C...
Christian Atheism (w/ Slavoj Žižek)
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discussion with philosopher Slavoj Žižek focused on his latest book Christian Atheism.
Singularities (03) ft. Javier Rivera
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimension of religion. The third episode hosts Javier Rivera...
Negativity in Psychoanalysis (w/ Duane Rousselle, Mark Gerard Murphy)
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion features psychoanalyst Duane Rousselle and theologian Mark Gerard Murphy to discuss their new edited volume Negativity in Psychoanalys...
Singularities (02) ft. Peter Robinson
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimensions of religion. The second episode features Peter Ro...
What Do Men Want? (w/ Nina Power)
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nina Power and I discuss her book What Do Men Want? (2023) which focuses on some of the contemporary issues that specifically center around masculinit...
Singularities (01) ft. Jacob Kishere
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimension of religion. The first episode hosts Jacob Kishere...
Reading Lacan's Ecrits (Part 2)
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation with Samuel McCormick is the second in a series titled "Reading Lacan's Ecrits". The first conversation prepared Philo...
The Idea of the University (w/ David McKerracher, Ann Snelgrove of Theory Underground)
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this discussion, David, Ann and I discuss the importance of thinking The Idea of the University in the contemporary neoliberal and digitised politi...
Death and World Grounding (w/ Johannes A. Niederhauser)
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
What is the "Phenomenology of Spirit"? (w/ Mika Leinonen, Eric Jobe, Chetan Anand)
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. &n...
Thinking the Commons: Tribe in the Internet Age (w/ Michel Bauwens & Alexander Bard)
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Philosophy of Lack (#3) (w/ O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, Alexander Ebert): Excess
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 cente...
Return to Metaphysics: How to Think Our Being? (w/ Alexander Bard, O.G. Rose, Alexander Elung)
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Metaphysics concerns the study of first principles of being (e.g. identity, change, space, time, causality, necessity, possibility). In other wo...
Modern Dating and Romantic Relationships (w/ Javier Rivera)
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The dating landscape used to be generally regulated by a traditional-normative symbolic structure which organized society towards a more-or-less clear...
Philosophy of Lack (#2.5) (w/ Alexander Ebert): Prelude to Perfection
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 min...
Philosophy of Lack (#2) (w/ O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, Alexander Ebert): Materialism
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We started our first discourse on lack in the context of the origin of philosophy in the Parmenidean presupposition of absolute being banishing the vo...
Absolute Knowledge (w/ O.G. Rose)
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Absolute Knowledge is a notoriously difficult and confusing concept in Hegel’s philosophy (and yet represents the name of the last chapter of his ma...
Philosophy of Lack (#1) (w/ O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, Alexander Ebert): Foundations
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Philosophy is a discipline classically concerned with "Being", or the presence of Something. Why is there Something rather than Nothing? H...
Sex, Masculinity, God (1.5): Masculinity & Masculine Movements
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The second discourse on masculinity and masculine movements shifts exploration from the red pill community and the connection between masculinity and ...
Sex, Masculinity, God (1.4): Gender Theory/Trouble
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the second trialogue on gender trouble/theory we attempt to shift focus from alternatives to binary classification schemes (i.e. triadic, quadratic...
Sex, Masculinity, God (1.3): Evolutionary versus Religious Worldviews
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the second trialogue on the evolutionary versus religious worldview we attempt to build on our original notions that a synthesis between evolutiona...
Pathological Evolution (#2) (w/ Raven Connolly): Biological Reproduction and Religious Belief
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The most advanced pre-modern civilizations (historical societies) were built on metaphysical presuppositions that we call “religious”. Moder...
Tribal Singularity (#2) (w/ Alexander Bard & Elung): Digging into Transcendental Emergentism
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation I host Alexander Bard and Alexander Elung to discuss the philosophy of "transcendental emergentism" and its relation to the futur...
Noopolitik (#1) (w/ Daniel Fraga & Owen Cox): Mental Warfare in the Global Economy
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this trialogue we attempt to introduce the notion of "Noopolitik" or "politics of the noosphere". In the 20th century, the birth of our globa...
Emancipation After Hegel (w/ Todd McGowan)
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Sex, Masculinity, God (1.2): Historical Emergence of Traditional Archetypes
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second trialogue on the Historical Emergence of Traditional Archetypes we shift attention from the historical conditions for the emergence of a...
Tribal Singularity (#1) (w/ Alexander Bard): Mapping Patriarchy and Matriarchy in the Internet Age
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 orie...
Pathological Evolution (#1) (w/ Raven Connolly): Unconscious Desire, Social Tensions
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of evolution transformed science (Darwin); the idea of pathos transformed psychology (Freud). Discussing "pathological evolution" is ne...
Last and Guner (#1): Why Microdose?
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode (originally streamed in the 21-Day Meditation Challenge Facebook group), we set the foundation covering the concept of psychedelics in...
The Enlightenment Gap (#2) (w/ Gregg Henriques): Modern Philosophy of Psychology
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation is attempting to build on our notion of an "Enlightenment Gap" emergent in the scientific universe between matter/mind (i.e. mind/bo...
Sex, Masculinity, God (1.1): The Reality of Sexual Difference
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Enlightenment Gap (#1) (w/ Gregg Henriques): Identifying the Problem
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation is introducing the idea of the "Enlightenment Gap" as a problem emergent to the scientific universe. Here we define the proble...