PHILOSOPHY PORTAL CONFERENCE AUGUST 5TH-6TH, FEATURING WORK ON EARLY MARX, DELEUZE AND ANALYSIS, WRITING FOR (a) FIRST CAUSE, AND MUCH MORE

DAY 2: 12pm CEST - 9pm CEST

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TWO DAY EVENT HOSTING PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS DEDICATED TO PHILOSOPHY

Portalpalooza 2026 showcases extensions on our work in The Portal from 2025.

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 / Joris De Kelver - Lack in Common(s): What Do We Share?

230-3pm CEST / Edie Hitchcock - I'm Paying to Talk? Capital and Psychoanalysis, Money and Objet a

3-330pm CEST / Michel Bauwens - The Rebirth of the Integral Left: The Left is Dead, Long Live the Left?

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 / Bryce Nance - Marxism and Inhumanism

5-6pm CEST / Chris Cutrone - Lenin and the PMC

Conference Speakers

  • Cadell Last

    Philosopher, author

  • Daniel Coughlan

    Theologian, tantra

  • Chris Eyre

    Writer, philosopher

  • Bryce Nance

    Podcast host and writer

  • Edie Hitchcock

    Psychoanalyst, philosopher

  • Michel Bauwens

    Commons theorist

  • James Wisdom

    Artist, writer

  • Khalid Abuarja

    Theorist, politics

  • Joris De Kelver

    Steward of the commons

  • Chris Cutrone

    Marxist, founder of Platypus

Portal Panels / August 6th

6-7pm CEST / Michael Downs

7-8pm CEST / Helen Rollins, Alfie Bown

Panel Speakers

  • Michael Downs

    Zizekian/Landian Philosopher

  • Helen Rollins

    Psychoanalytic theorist, writer

  • Alfie Bown

    Psychoanalytic theorist, writer

Reading Group and Sharing Circle Reflection

8-9pm CEST / Rebecca Prentice, Cadell Last

Group and Circle Leaders

  • Rebecca Prentice

    Writer, philosopher

  • Cadell Last

    Philosopher, author

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 - Deleuze Against Lacan? A Lacanian Critique of the Philosophy of Desire

2-230pm CEST / Sinziana Ravini - Rethinking Psychosis after Lacan and Deleuze

230-3pm CEST / Phillip Shinn - "Crash" to "The United Genus of Crash?"

3-330pm CEST / Sahil Sasidharan - Differentiating Lacan’s Deleuze

330-4pm CEST / Kalyani Vaishnavi - That which hides in plain sight

4-430pm CEST / Bill Breck - Casting the Plane: Tuché, Chaos, and the Collapse of Dualisms

430-5pm CEST / Chris Parsons - Desire Beyond the Limits of Representation

5-530pm CEST / Cleo Kearns - Arrested Development: Deleuze and Lacan on Human Maturation

530-6pm CEST / LaVonne Chantal - Object a Has No Bibliography: The Arrested University and the Holy Impasse

6-7pm CEST / Cadell Last - Barred Philosophy Towards an Unorientable Theological Parallax

Conference Speakers

  • Terence Blake

    Continental Philosopher

  • Eliot Rosenstock

    Therapist, writer

  • Tiers Bakker

    Philosopher, writer

  • Phillip Shinn

    Writer, actor

  • Sahil Sasidharan

    Philosopher of technics

  • Kalyani Vaishnavi

    Philosopher, writer

  • Bill Breck

    Theorist, writer

  • Chris Parsons

    Theorist, writer

  • Cleo Kearns

    Philosopher, author

  • LaVonne Chantal

    Entrepreneur, theorist

  • Sinziana Ravini

    Psychoanalyst, writer

  • 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

  • Dylan Shaul

    Continental Philosopher

  • Layman Pascal

    Metashaman, integral theorist

  • 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

  • Cleo Kearns

    Philosopher, author

  • Sinziana Ravini

    Psychoanalyst, writer

  • Joris De Kelver

    Steward of the commons

  • Edie Hitchcock

    Psychoanalyst, philosopher

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