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.
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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.
NEXT: MARCH 2025
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
GLOBAL SCHEDULE:
Saturday February 22nd @ 7pm 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 (Emergent) Church as 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 2: Contextualising “Destroy, Destroy…”
Sunday March 23rd @ 830pm CET / Real Talk on What Is Church/Religion? with Rob Zahn, Kevin Crouse
Wednesday March 26th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 3: A Voice and Nothing More / The “Physics” of the Voice
Monday March 31st @ 830pm CET / Concept Cave on Metavangelicalism
Wednesday April 2nd @ 7pm CET / Session 3: The Noetic Paths of Deleuze and Lacan
Monday April 7th @ 830pm CET / The Edge on A Parish Manifesto with Ross Byrd
Saturday April 12th to Sunday April 13th @ ALL DAY / Christian Atheism Conference
Monday April 14th @ 830pm CET / Thought Lab on Metavangelical Conversion with Jordan Hall
Wednesday April 16th @ 7pm CET / Session 4: Deepening the Understanding of Deleuze and Lacan’s Paths
Monday April 21st @ 830pm CET / Real Talk on TLC as Metavangelicalism with Christian Baxter
Sunday April 27th to Monday May 1st @ Belfast, Ireland / The Portal @ Wake (PHYSICAL)
Sunday May 4th @ 7pm CET / Session 1: Critique of Philosophy of Right
Monday May 5th @ 830pm CET / Concept Cave on Real Speculations: Literature and Philosophy
Monday May 12th @ 830pm CET / 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 CET / Thought Lab: Under the Wing with O.G. Rose
Wednesday May 21st @ 7pm CET / Session 5: Moving Beyond Stereotypes
Monday May 26th @ 830pm CET / Real Talk: Telling Our Story with O.G. Rose and Stygian Society
Wednesday May 28th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 5: A Voice and Nothing More / The “Politics” of the Voice
Sunday June 1st @ 830pm CET / Concept Cave on “Beyond Capitalist Realism” with Revol Press
Monday June 2nd @ 7pm CET / Session 2: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
Sunday June 8th @ 830pm CET / The Edge on Self and Addiction in Digital Capitalism with Mike Watson
Sunday June 15th @ 830pm CET / Thought Lab on Collapse of the Future with Bram E. Gieben
Wednesday June 18th @ 7pm CET / Session 6: Alain Badiou as a Bridge Between Deleuze and Lacan
Sunday June 22nd @ 830pm CET / Real Talk on What Is Beyond “Capitalist Realism”? with Mike Watson, Bram E. Gieben, Adam Turl
Wednesday June 25th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 6: A Voice and Nothing More / Kafka’s/Freud’s Voices
Sunday July 13th @ 7pm CET / Session 3: Theses on Feuerbach
Sunday August 10th @ 7pm CET / Session 4: The German Ideology
Sunday September 7th @ 830pm CET / Concept Cave on Basic Concepts from Macrohistorians with Michel Bauwens
Monday September 8th @ 7pm CET / Session 5: The Poverty of Philosophy
Sunday September 14th @ 830pm CET / The Edge on The Pulsation of the Commons with Michel Bauwens
Wednesday September 17th @ 7pm CET / Session 7: Desire as Production
Sunday September 21st @ 830pm CET / Thought Lab on P2P Theory Approach to the Commons with Michel Bauwens
Wednesday September 24th @ 7pm CET / Reading Group 7: The Odd One In / The Concrete Universal
Sunday September 28th @ 830pm CET / Real Talk on The Next System, What Can We Know? with Michel Bauwens
Sunday October 5th @ 7pm CET / Session 6: Wage Labour and Capital
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
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
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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.
