The Portal live event space.
Join a living thinking community. Four live events, every month.
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Concept Cave
Is a space to learn and discuss fundamental concepts. Each month Dr. Cadell Last will highlight a specific concept from the foundations of modern philosophy and open up a space for discussion on how we may relate to or think with that concept today.
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The Edge
Is a space to walk the razor’s edge of contemporary thought and practice. Each month a thinker walking the “razor’s edge” of a new idea or collision between ideas will be invited to share with us what they have newly discovered/created in the real or anticipated.
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Thought Lab
Is a space to learn from and think with a thought leader about our shared becoming. Each month a thinker who has spent an extended period of time mediating core ideas will be invited to help us think with these ideas and relate them into our daily life or philosophical journey.
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Real Talk
Is a space for free association and full speech inspired by liminal thinkers and living ideas. Each month a thinker whose life practice directly engages the real will be invited to inspire us to explore deeper parts of ourselves using the method of free association.
How does it work?
Philosophy Portal is an online education platform. The Portal functions as its living thinking community. Members are welcomed to all live events (but this is not an expectation), and get access to the entire history of recordings. Upon joining you will be added to the formal mailing list which is used to announce the next event as well as update you when an event recording has been updated to our private portal. Members also get free access to select courses as well as discounts on all past courses and permanent early-bird pricing for future courses. In this way joining The Portal is the easiest way to start getting involved with Philosophy Portal as a whole. Throughout 2025, all members of The Portal will get access to “Deleuze and Analysis”, a course taught by Prof. Terence Blake; as well as a Slovenian School Reading Group, led by Dimitri Crooijmans. All members of The Portal will get first access to our yearly retreats, as well as access to participation in the first ever journal dedicated to the Slovenian school of philosophy: Eppur Si Muove — Journal for Slovenian School Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Theopolitics.
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The Portal gives you access to the entire history of events, which includes four months every month of 2024 (plus live sessions from our 2024 retreat)
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Members of The Portal have discounted access to previous and future recorded courses taught by Dr. Cadell Last, and free access to many other courses.
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Philosophy Portal attempts to host an annual retreat as well as other events in coordination with other organisations. Membership to The Portal gives you preferential access to these retreats and events.
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FEBRUARY 2025
Philosophy Portal is an online education platform opening space for the next generation of great thought, and cultivation of future philosophical mind. Philosophy Portal members get access to The Portal live event spaces, book clubs, either free or discounted access to courses, permanent early bird pricing on future courses, and priority to apply for retreats. Couples are encouraged get a 2 for 1 deal.
Bonus: Members get access to a quarterly book club, open-access courses, a reading group, and retreats/events.
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Book Club
The Portal hosts a quarterly Book Club that highlights and supports the work of thinkers in our general liminal web/underground theory circles. Learn, ask questions and discuss with living authors and The Portal community.
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Deleuze & Analysis
The Portal gives you access to a year long 10-seminar course by Prof. Terence Blake on Deleuze and his interactions with Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy.
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Reading Group
Throughout 2025 Dimitri Crooijmans will be hosting a Reading Group focused on the works of Alenka Zupančič’s The Odd One In: On Comedy, and Mladen Dolar’s A Voice and Nothing More.
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Eppur Si Muove
Journal for The Portal. Submission for Volume 1 open to December 2025.
GLOBAL SCHEDULE
Sunday January 19th @ 830pm CET / Thought Lab on Gurdjieff and Sexuality with Layman Pascal, Schuyler Brown
Wednesday January 22nd @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 1: A Voice and Nothing More / The Linguistics of the Voice
Monday January 27th @ 830pm CET / Real Talk on Multiperspectival Ethics with Layman Pascal, Bruce Alderman
Sunday February 2nd @ 830pm CET / Concept Cave on “What Is Society?” with Chris Cutrone
Sunday February 9th @ 830pm CET / The Edge on Contradiction: Ontological vs. Epistemological with Chris Cutrone
Sunday February 16th @ 830pm CET / Thought Lab on Capitalism as Social Contradiction with Chris Cutrone
Wednesday February 19th @ 7pm CET / Session 2: Contextualising “Destroy, Destroy…”
Saturday February 22nd @ 830pm CET / Real Talk on Marxism Today and Tomorrow with Chris Cutrone
Wednesday February 26th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 2: A Voice and Nothing More / The Metaphysics of the Voice
Sunday March 2nd @ 830pm CET / Concept Cave on Church of Contradiction
Sunday March 9th @ 830pm CET / The Edge on De/Reconstruction with Jim Palmer
Sunday March 16th @ 830pm CET / Thought Lab on Meta-God Concepts with Brendan Graham Dempsey
Wednesday March 19th @ 7pm CET / Session 3: The Noetic Paths of Deleuze and Lacan
Sunday March 23rd @ 830pm CET / Real Talk on What Is Religion? with Rob Zahn, Kevin Crouse
Wednesday March 26th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 3: A Voice and Nothing More / The “Physics” of the Voice
Saturday April 12th to Sunday April 13th @ ALL DAY / Christian Atheism Conference
Wednesday April 16th @ 7pm CET / Session 4: Deepening the Understanding of Deleuze and Lacan’s Paths
Sunday April 27th to Monday May 1st @ Belfast, Ireland / The Portal @ Wake (PHYSICAL)
Wednesday April 30th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 4: A Voice and Nothing More / The “Ethics” of the Voice
Saturday May 17th to Monday May 19th @ TBD / Philosophy Portal x Stygian Society x O.G. Rose (PHYSICAL)
Wednesday May 21st @ 7pm CET / Session 5: Moving Beyond Stereotypes
Wednesday May 28th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 5: A Voice and Nothing More / The “Politics” of the Voice
Wednesday June 18th @ 7pm CET / Session 6: Alain Badiou as a Bridge Between Deleuze and Lacan
Wednesday June 25th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 6: A Voice and Nothing More / Kafka’s/Freud’s Voices
Wednesday September 17th @ 7pm CET / Session 7: Desire as Production
Wednesday September 24th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 7: The Odd One In / The Concrete Universal
Wednesday October 15th @ 7pm CET / Session 8: Slavoj Žižek as a Bridge Between Deleuze and Lacan
Wednesday October 22nd @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 8: The Odd One In / Figures of Comedy
Wednesday November 19th @ 7pm CET / Session 9: What Is Philosophy?
Wednesday November 26th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 9: The Odd One In / Conceptualisations
Wednesday December 17th @ 7pm CET / Session 10: The Diamond-Punch ◇ as a Creative
Thursday December 18th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 10: The Odd One In / The Phallus
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What if I just want to access the recordings?
If you do not want to join Philosophy Portal as a member but still want to access the recordings of past events or specifically zero in on themes that The Portal has been working on and thinking through, you can also sign up to our “Member Specials” below which present well organised packages around themes of “Sexuality”, “Community” and “Metaphysics”. By selecting one of the packages you get access to all of the best Portal content around the theme or topic that interests you the most.
This is a course that samples the best videos and events in The Portal focused on the topic of sexuality.
This is a course that samples the best videos and event in The Portal focused on the topic of community.
This is a course that samples the best videos and events in The Portal focused on the topic of metaphysics.
