PHILOSOPHY PORTAL CONFERENCE AUGUST 5TH-6TH, FEATURING WORK ON EARLY MARX, DELEUZE AND ANALYSIS, WRITING FOR (a) FIRST CAUSE, SLOVENIAN SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY 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 (12-9pm CEST)
Deleuze and Analysis / August 5th
12-1pm CEST / Terence Blake - Continental Gephyro-Phenomenology: Bridging Deleuze and Lacan"
1-130pm CEST / LaVonne Chantal - Object a Has No Bibliography: The Arrested University and the Holy Impasse
130-2pm CEST / Phillip Shinn - Crash
2-230pm CEST / Sahil Sasidharan - Differentiating Lacan’s Deleuze
230-3pm CEST / Kalyani Vaishnavi - That which hides in plain sight
3-330pm CEST / Bill Breck - Resonant Parallax Views: Lack and Excess, Actual and Virtual
330-4pm CEST / Chris Parsons - Desire Beyond the Limits of Representation
4-430pm CEST / Cleo Kearns - Arrested Development: Deleuze and Lacan on Human Maturation
430-5pm CEST / Eliot Rosenstock - Complexity, Abstraction, Mythemes, and Simplicity
5-530pm CEST / Sinziana Ravini - Deleuze, Lacan and Schizoanalysis
530-6pm CEST / Cadell Last - Philosophy of/as Parallax
Conference Speakers
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Terence Blake
Continental Philosopher
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LaVonne Chantal
Entrepreneur, theorist
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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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Eliot Rosenstock
Psychotherapist, writer
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Sinziana Ravini
Psychoanalyst, writer
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Cadell Last
Philosopher, author
Portal Panels / August 5th
6-7pm CEST / Metaphysics Resurrected ft. Dylan Shaul
7-8pm 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
8-9pm 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 / Dimitri Crooijmans - Sex and Class as Parallax
130-2pm CEST / Daniel Coughlan - The Communisation of Kundalini-Vidya through Christ
2-230pm CEST / Chris Eyre - Marxism and Tribes
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 / Quinn Whelehan - Marxist Subjectivity as Contradiction
4-430pm CEST / James Wisdom - The War That Did Not End: Marx's Civil War Correspondence and the Deferred Antagonism
430-5pm CEST / Khalid Abuarja - Politics for the State, Economy for Society
5-530pm CEST / Joris De Kelver - Lack in Common(s): What Do We Share?
Conference Speakers
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Cadell Last
Philosopher, author
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Dimitri Crooijmans
Philosopher, linguist
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Daniel Coughlan
Theologian, tantra
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Chris Eyre
Writer, philosopher
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Edie Hitchcock
Psychoanalyst, philosopher
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Rebecca Prentice
Writer, philosopher
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Quinn Whelehan
Philosopher, writer
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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
Portal Panels / August 6th
6-7pm CEST / Michael Downs
7-8pm CEST / Helen Rollins
Panel Speakers
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Michael Downs
Zizekian/Landian Philosopher
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Helen Rollins
Psychoanalytic theorist, writer
Reading Group and Sharing Circle Reflection
8-9pm CEST / Rebecca Prentice, Dimitri Crooijmans
Group and Circle Leaders
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Rebecca Prentice
Writer, philosopher
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Dimitri Crooijmans
Philosopher, linguist