PHILOSOPHY PORTAL CONFERENCE AUGUST 5TH-6TH, FEATURING WORK ON EARLY MARX, DELEUZE AND ANALYSIS, WRITING FOR (a) FIRST CAUSE, AND MUCH MORE
TWO DAY EVENT HOSTING PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS DEDICATED TO PHILOSOPHY
Portalpalooza 2026 showcases extensions on our work in The Portal from 2025.
AUGUST 5TH 2026 (12-10pm CEST)
Deleuze and Analysis / August 5th
12-1pm CEST / Terence Blake - Continental Gephyro-Phenomenology: Bridging Deleuze and Lacan"
1-130pm CEST / Eliot Rosenstock - Complexity, Abstraction, Mythemes, and Simplicity
130-2pm CEST / Tiers Bakker - Lacan-Deleuze and Mental Health
2-230pm CEST / Phillip Shinn - Crash
230-3pm CEST / Sahil Sasidharan - Differentiating Lacan’s Deleuze
3-330pm CEST / Kalyani Vaishnavi - That which hides in plain sight
330-4pm CEST / Bill Breck - Resonant Parallax Views: Lack and Excess, Actual and Virtual
4-430pm CEST / Chris Parsons - Desire Beyond the Limits of Representation
430-5pm CEST / Cleo Kearns - Arrested Development: Deleuze and Lacan on Human Maturation
5-530pm CEST / LaVonne Chantal - Object a Has No Bibliography: The Arrested University and the Holy Impasse
530-6pm CEST / Sinziana Ravini - Rethinking Psychosis after Lacan and Deleuze
6-630pm CEST / Cadell Last - Philosophy of/as Parallax
Conference Speakers
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Terence Blake
Continental Philosopher
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Eliot Rosenstock
Therapist, writer
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Tiers Bakker
Philosopher, writer
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Phillip Shinn
Writer, actor
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Sahil Sasidharan
Philosopher of technics
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Kalyani Vaishnavi
Philosopher, writer
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Bill Breck
Theorist, writer
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Chris Parsons
Theorist, writer
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Cleo Kearns
Philosopher, author
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LaVonne Chantal
Entrepreneur, theorist
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Sinziana Ravini
Psychoanalyst, writer
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Cadell Last
Philosopher, author
Portal Panels / August 5th
7-8pm CEST / Metaphysics Resurrected ft. Dylan Shaul
8-9pm CEST / The Integral Stage ft. Layman Pascal and Bruce Alderman
Panel Speakers
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Dylan Shaul
Continental Philosopher
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Layman Pascal
Metashaman, integral theorist
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Bruce Alderman
Integral theorist, grammatology
Writing For (a) First Cause Anthology Reflection
9-10pm CEST / Anthology Panel, ft. Cleo Kearns, Sinziana Ravini, Joris De Kelver, Edie Hitchcock
Anthology Reflection Participants
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Cleo Kearns
Philosopher, author
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Sinziana Ravini
Psychoanalyst, writer
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Joris De Kelver
Steward of the commons
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Edie Hitchcock
Psychoanalyst, philosopher
AUGUST 6TH 2026 (12-9pm CEST)
Early Marx 101 / August 6th
12-1pm CEST / Cadell Last - The Contradiction of Capitalist Society
1-130pm CEST / Daniel Coughlan - The Communisation of Kundalini-Vidya through Christ
130-2pm CEST / Chris Eyre - Marxism and Tribes
2-230pm CEST / Bryce Nance - Marxism and Inhumanism
230-3pm CEST / Edie Hitchcock - I'm Paying to Talk? Capital and Psychoanalysis, Money and Objet a
3-330pm CEST / Rebecca Prentice - Is Marx Our Contemporary?
330-4pm CEST / James Wisdom - The War That Did Not End: Marx's Civil War Correspondence and the Deferred Antagonism
4-430pm CEST / Khalid Abuarja - Politics for the State, Economy for Society
430-5pm CEST / Joris De Kelver - Lack in Common(s): What Do We Share?
5-530pm CEST / Michel Bauwens - The Rebirth of the Integral Left
Conference Speakers
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Cadell Last
Philosopher, author
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Daniel Coughlan
Theologian, tantra
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Chris Eyre
Writer, philosopher
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Bryce Nance
Podcast host and writer
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Edie Hitchcock
Psychoanalyst, philosopher
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Rebecca Prentice
Writer, philosopher
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James Wisdom
Artist, writer
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Khalid Abuarja
Theorist, politics
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Joris De Kelver
Steward of the commons
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Michel Bauwens
Commons theorist, founder of P2P
Portal Panels / August 6th
6-7pm CEST / Michael Downs
7-8pm CEST / Helen Rollins, Alfie Bown
Panel Speakers
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Michael Downs
Zizekian/Landian Philosopher
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Helen Rollins
Psychoanalytic theorist, writer
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Alfie Bown
Psychoanalytic theorist, writer
Reading Group and Sharing Circle Reflection
8-9pm CEST / Rebecca Prentice, Cadell Last
Group and Circle Leaders
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Rebecca Prentice
Writer, philosopher
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Cadell Last
Philosopher, author