❋ AUGUST 5TH AND 6TH 2026
❋PALOOZA = COMBINING FORM FOR A LARGE SCALE EVENT
PORTALPALOOZA
TWO DAY EVENT HOSTING PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS DEDICATED TO PHILOSOPHY
Portalpalooza 2026 features the work of students from our 2025 course work, as well as work from leaders from our 2025 event space, reading group, and sharing circle.
Deleuze and Analysis / August 5th
12-1 / Terence Blake - Continental Gephyro-Phenomenology: Bridging Deleuze and Lacan"
1-130 / LaVonne Chantal - Object a Has No Bibliography: The Arrested University and the Holy Impasse
130-2 / Phillip Shinn - Crash
2-230 / Sahil Sasidharan - Differentiating Lacan’s Deleuze
230-3 / Kalyani Vaishnavi - That which hides in plain sight
3-330 / Bill Breck - Resonant Parallax Views: Lack and Excess, Actual and Virtual
330-4 / Chris Parsons - Desire Beyond the Limits of Representation
4-430 / Cleo Kearns - Arrested Development: Deleuze and Lacan on Human Maturation
430-5 / Cadell Last - Philosophy of/as Parallax
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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Cadell Last
Philosopher, author
Portal Panels / August 5th
5-6 / Dylan Shaul
Metaphysics Resurrected
Panel Speaker
Dylan Shaul
Panel Co-Hosts
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Dimitri Crooijmans
Philosopher
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Daniel Coughlan
Theologian, tantra
Integral: Wilber and Beyond
6-7 / Layman Pascal, Bruce Alderman
Panel Speakers
Layman Pascal
Bruce Alderman
Panel Co-Hosts
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Erik Haines
Writer, meta-theorist
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Daniel Coughlan
Theologian, tantra
Writing For (a) First Cause
7-8 / Anthology Panel, ft. Cleo Kearns, Sinziana Ravini, Joris De Kelver, Edie Hitchcock
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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
Early Marx 101 / August 6th
12-1 / Cadell Last - The Contradiction of Capitalist Society
2-230 / Dimitri Crooijmans - Sex and Class as Parallax
130-2 / Daniel Coughlan - The Communisation of Kundalini-Vidya through Christ
230-3 / Chris Eyre - Marxism and Tribes
4-430 / Edie Hitchcock - I'm Paying to Talk? Capital and Psychoanalysis, Money and Objet a
330-4 / Rebecca Prentice - Platypus and Philosophy
430-5 / Quinn Whelehan - Marxist Subjectivity as Contradiction
X-X / James Wisdom - X
3-330 / Khalid Abuarja - Politics for the State, Economy for Society
1-130 / Joris De Kelver - Lack in Common(s): What Do We Share?
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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
5-6 / Michel Bauwens
Commons P2P
Panel Speaker
Michel Bauwens
Panel Co-Hosts
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Joris De Kelver
Steward of the commons
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Dimitri Crooijmans
Philosopher
Land, Zizek, Singularity
6-7 / Michael Downs
Panel Speaker
Michael Downs
Panel Co-Hosts
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Layman Pascal
Shaman, integral theorist
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Carl Hayden Smith
Hyperhumanist
Reading Group and Sharing Circle
7-8 / Rebecca Prentice, Dimitri Crooijmans
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Rebecca Prentice
Writer, philosopher
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Dimitri Crooijmans
Philosopher, linguist