This is a conversation with philosopher Katherine Everritt on the topic of her doctoral thesis Hegel in Vertigo.
This conversation with philosopher Terence Blake focuses on the potential interconnection between Deleuze and Žižek.
This is a conversation with Daniel L. Garner of O.G. Rose to discuss their most recent book release Belonging Again: An Address.
In this discussion about "Frameworks for Thinking" I discuss with psychologist Maciej Swiezy about the way frameworks structure our understanding of reality, how frameworks can be played with to improve our thinking processes and societies, and the nature of frameworks in themselves as structured by metaphors and limitations of our cognition.
This conversation with Gregg Henriques on the idea of an “Enlightenment Gap”.
This conversation with Gregg Henriques is attempting to build the notion of an "Enlightenment Gap".
In this discussion Todd McGowan and I dive into the notion of freedom after the introduction of Hegelian philosophy.
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.
In this conversation series, we seek to enquire deeper about the experience and the philosophy of Lack, and ultimately, what such a philosophy might say about our contemporary culture.
In our second discourse on the Philosophy of Lack, I propose to shift our context to Democritus, and his atomist ontology, which we may say is the spontaneous unofficial metaphysics of scientific materialism (i.e. the universe at base is divided between indivisible somethings and nothing (“the void”).
In this Philosophical Freestyle, Cadell Last and O.G. Rose attempt to tackle one of the most monstrous concepts in Hegel's Philosophy: Absolute Knowing.
Alex Ebert and I discuss the relations between perfection, lack, and becoming as part of the Philosophy of Lack series.
This conversation with Samuel McCormick is the second in a series titled "Reading Lacan's Ecrits".
Javier Rivera and I attempt to philosophize about dating complexity and confusion with a psychoanalytic perspective.
Alexander Bard, Alexander Elung, Daniel L. Garner and I discuss the return to metaphysics.
Daniel L. Garner, Tim Adalin, Alex Ebert and I continue the Philosophy of Lack series with a focus on excess.
Mika Leinonen, Eric Jobe, Chetan Anand and I discuss approaches to reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.
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.
A conversation at year-end about what is happening in online intellectual spaces: what is sensed?, what is missing?, what is hoped for? We will various discuss topics of violence/conflict, sexuality/intimacy, money/power, recognition/attention, lack/insecurity, and truth/fantasy (featuring Owen Cox, Daniel Fraga (of Technosocial), Kevin Orosz, Daniel Dick (Sex, Masculinity, God), O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, Alexander Ebert (Philosophy of Lack).
Johannes A. Niederhauser, founder of Halkyon Thinkers Guild, and Alexander Bard, philosopher of technology, join me to discuss their own thoughts on and personal relationship with edtech.
Daniel L. Garner, Tim Adalin, Alex Ebert and I conclude our Philosophy of Lack series with a focus on address.
In this discussion Layman Pascal and I seek to explore the way he makes sense of Nietzsche, and how he views his potential importance to the development of the "liminal web", among other adjacent movements and projects, like Ontario Depth Adaptation.
In this discussion we seek to explore topic of nihilism and its overcoming with Nietzsche’s concepts of the will to power and eternal recurrence. Here we situate both concepts in relation to the postmodern problem of “the understanding’s” desire for “fixed values”, and its relation to the thing-in-itself, which appears to be fundamentally transient, and thus unfixable.
In this discussion, we attempt to reflection on some crucial passages in Nietzsche as it relates to the body, sexual difference, and women. These reflections include Nietzsche's ideas about "body haters", "pleasures and pains of passion", "chastity", "relations between men and women", as well as "marriage and reproduction".
In this final discussion in "The Nietzsche Dialogues", we explore Bard's interpretations of Nietzsche as a philosopher, his potential futures, as well as his own understanding of core Nietzschean concepts: Perspectivism, Overman, Will to Power, Master/Slave Morality, and the Eternal Return.
The Nietzsche Dialogues is over, but I thought it would be fun to bring on a couple of guests from the dialogues to do an open session. Ask us anything about Nietzsche and Thus Spoke Zarathustra!
This conversation focuses on a proposed course by Tim Adalin of Voicecraft titled Transformative Philosophy.
An Iconoclast is technically someone who attacks or criticises cherished beliefs or institutions. In this conversation, I discuss with Samuel Barnes about his new book, The Iconoclast: An Anti-Philosophy.
In this discussion, I investigate Chetan Anand's chapter in Enter the Alien focused on "Self-Consciousness in Hegel."
In this discussion, I explore Quinn Whelehan's chapter in Enter the Alien, focused on the relation between Nagarjuna's Buddhistic logic and Hegel's dialectical logic.
In this discussion, I explore Dimitri Crooijmans chapter in Enter the Alien, focused on his attempt to put Tantric practices and Hegelian philosophy into a deeper interrelation.
The "metaphysics" of adjacency is the paradoxical recognition that we find ourselves in a post-metaphysical era due to a widespread shift in the sense of truth.
The Science of Logic is framed here as a "Counter-Enlightenment" foundational text.
In this discussion, I reflect with four students on their experience working with Philosophy Portal in 2022, first working through the Phenomenology of Spirit, and moving towards the Science of Logic.
This conversation revolves around ideas of the mechanism of sublation, the general nature of creativity, and our own personal creative drives.
This focuses on the relationship between Hegel and Heidegger from the perspective of “Heidegger’s Hegel”.
In this discussion with Michael Downs and David McKerracher of Theory Underground, we first explore the roots of their collaboration, background and interest in philosophy, and introduction to Zizek's work.
In this conversation, Todd McGowan and I discuss his new book, The Racist Fantasy.
In this conversation, Peter Rollins and I discuss his book, The Orthodox Heretic.
This video covers the overall aim of Systems and Subjects, which puts systems science into conversations with continental philosophy, with the four main chapters of the book, each inspired by opening discourse between Bertalanffy's systems science and a particular figure of continental philosophy (Heidegger, Freud, Nietzsche, and Hegel).
This is a conversation with Owen Cox, Filip Lundström, David Högberg, and Dimitri Crooijmans focused on an upcoming physical live event hosted by Dark Renaissance Productions in Gothenburg Sweden.
This is an interview with Daniel L. Garner of O.G. Rose to discuss his book Belonging Again (Part 1): An Explanation.
In this interview with philosopher Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes we discuss his paper “On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research”.
In this interview with psychologist Dr. Davood Gozli we explore his book Experimental Psychology and Human Agency with a focus to what he has learned since its publication.
This video represents a book discussion focused on my second official solo book, Systems and Subjects, and featuring four guests/interlocutors, including Layman Pascal, Thomas Hamelryck, Daniel L. Garner, and Tim Adalin.
This video represents a book overview of the second Philosophy Portal anthology, Abyssal Arrows.
In this seminar with Dr. Todd McGowan we get a focus on the concept of Lack and Desire as inspired by Lacanian psychoanalysis.
In this seminar with Dr. Isabel Millar we get a focus on the concept of Patipolitics in the context of her upcoming work on the same topic.
This is an interview with Marta Lenartowicz, Maciek Świeży, Gerard de Zeeuw we discuss the upcoming year at the School of Thinking.
This is a livestream focused on the second official Philosophy Portal anthology, Abyssal Arrows, featuring many of the authors of the anthology.
This is an interview with academic Dr. Samuel McCormick to discuss approaches to reading Lacan’s Écrits, in preparation for Philosophy Portal’s course on the Écrits.
This is an interview with negative practitioner Dr. Julie Reshe to discuss her book Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead, a work which explores the limits of therapy culture and introduces a psychoanalysis beyond the clinic in negative practice.
This is a conversation with Michael Downs and David McKerracher of Theory Underground to discuss a course led by Michael Downs focused on Nick Land’s philosophy.
This is a conversation with Daniel L. Garner of O.G. Rose and Andrew Sweeny of Parallax, to discuss the course at Parallax led by O.G. Rose “Look at the Birds of the Air”.
This is an interview with theologian Matthew Segal, who works as an associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and focused on his book “Crossing the Threshold”.