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 explore the under conceptualised in 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 automatically get access to our private portal space where you can access live events and our recorded history, you will also 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.
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Every week there is an opportunity to join a live event hosted by The Portal, which you can access inside the private portal site, and/or will be notified of in our formal private mailing list.
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The Portal gives you access to the entire history of events, which includes four events every month of 2024 and 2025 (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 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.
NEXT: APRIL 2025
In April The Portal will be hosting a month dedicated to “Metagelicalism”. This month will be bringing together a unique mix of contemporary Christian thinkers and practitioners connected to various different living threads and communities, including Ross Byrd, Rob Zahn, Christian Baxter, and Luke Thompson. The aim of this month is to explore the idea of “Metagelicalism”, a term coined by Christian pastor Paul VanderKlay to describe contemporary movements in Western Christianity today, and specifically applied in the context of the online community called This Little Corner (TLC). Throughout the month you will be invited into presentations, discussions and reflections on the future of Christian culture, the challenge of building local church communities, the aftermath of Christianity in the counter-cultural revolution, and speculations about the TLC as Metagelical.
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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Open Circle
The Portal is opening a sharing circle focused on themes of "Sex and Society” starting this May 2025. This circle will be led by Rebecca Rose Prentice and theoretically oriented by the work of Alenka Zupančič.
GLOBAL SCHEDULE
GLOBAL SCHEDULE:
Monday April 21st @ 830pm CEST / Real Talk on TLC as Metagelical with Christian Baxter, Luke Thompson
Wednesday April 23rd @ 7pm CEST / Reading Group 4: A Voice and Nothing More / The “Ethics” of the Voice
Sunday April 27th to Monday May 1st @ Belfast, Ireland / The Portal @ Wake (PHYSICAL) (LINK)
Monday May 5th @ 830pm CEST / Concept Cave on Real Speculations: Literature and Philosophy
Wednesday May 7th @ 7pm CEST / Sexuality and Society Circle 1: Sublimation
Sunday May 11th @ 7pm CEST / Session 1: Critique of the Philosophy of Right*
Monday May 12th @ 830pm CEST / The Edge: Stygian Society with Holly Rhiannon and Pae Veo
Saturday May 17th to Monday May 19th @ TBD / Philosophy Portal x Stygian Society x O.G. Rose (PHYSICAL)
Tuesday May 20th @ 830pm CEST / Thought Lab: Under the Wing with O.G. Rose
Wednesday May 21st @ 7pm CEST / Session 5: Moving Beyond Stereotypes
Monday May 26th @ 830pm CEST / Real Talk: Telling Our Story with O.G. Rose and Stygian Society
Wednesday May 28th @ 7pm CEST / Reading Group 5: A Voice and Nothing More / The “Politics” of the Voice
Sunday June 1st @ 830pm CEST / Concept Cave on “Beyond Capitalist Realism” with Revol Press
Monday June 2nd @ 7pm CEST / Session 2: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts*
Sunday June 8th @ 830pm CEST / The Edge on Self and Addiction in Digital Capitalism with Mike Watson
Wednesday June 11th @ 7pm CEST / Sexuality and Society Circle 2: Epistemology and Ontology
Sunday June 15th @ 830pm CEST / Thought Lab on Collapse of the Future with Bram E. Gieben
Wednesday June 18th @ 7pm CEST / Session 6: Alain Badiou as a Bridge Between Deleuze and Lacan
Sunday June 22nd @ 830pm CEST / Real Talk on What Is Beyond “Capitalist Realism”? with Mike Watson, Bram E. Gieben, Adam Turl
Wednesday June 25th @ 7pm CEST / Reading Group 6: A Voice and Nothing More / Kafka’s/Freud’s Voices
Wednesday July 9th @ 7pm CEST / Sexuality and Society Circle 3: Analysis and Marxism
Sunday July 13th @ 7pm CEST / Session 3: Theses on Feuerbach*
Sunday August 10th @ 7pm CEST / Session 4: The German Ideology*
Sunday September 7th @ 830pm CEST / Concept Cave on Basic Concepts from Macrohistorians with Michel Bauwens
Monday September 8th @ 7pm CEST / Session 5: The Poverty of Philosophy*
Sunday September 14th @ 830pm CEST / The Edge on The Pulsation of the Commons with Michel Bauwens
Wednesday September 17th @ 7pm CEST / Session 7: Desire as Production
Sunday September 21st @ 830pm CEST / Thought Lab on P2P Theory Approach to the Commons with Michel Bauwens
Wednesday September 24th @ 7pm CEST / Reading Group 7: The Odd One In / The Concrete Universal
Sunday September 28th @ 830pm CEST / Real Talk on The Next System, What Can We Know? with Michel Bauwens
Sunday October 5th @ 7pm CEST / Session 6: Wage Labour and Capital*
Wednesday October 15th @ 7pm CEST / Session 8: Slavoj Žižek as a Bridge Between Deleuze and Lacan
Wednesday October 22nd @ 7pm CEST / Reading Group 8: The Odd One In / Figures of Comedy
Sunday November 2nd @ 7pm CET / Session 7: The Communist Manifesto*
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
*Course offering separate from an exclusive Portal access
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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.
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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.