SLOVENIAN SCHOOL READING GROUP
YEAR-LONG MONTHLY READING GROUP STARTS FEB 16TH / JOIN BELOW
The Slovenian School Reading Group is a monthly reading group. Throughout 2026 the reading group will be focused on Slavoj Zizek’s The Parallax View. This work covers a wide range of topics, including philosophy, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, politics, literature, and film, and is divided into three main sections: philosophical, scientific, and political. The book has often been described as his magnum opus, as he attempts to outline his system of thought.
The goal of the Slovenian School Reading Group is to help us to think the politics of subjectivity and come to a refined understanding of the dialectical and unconscious dimensions of the subject's life.
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Reading Group Leader
Dimitri Crooijmans
Dimitri Crooijmans is a philosopher and artist from the Netherlands. Ever since the beginning of Philosophy Portal, he has been publishing articles, short stories and songs inspired by an array of themes spanning metaphysics, ethics, politics and aesthetics. His writings, video-essays and podcasts can be found on his platform Actual Spirit. He sings and raps under the name Objet lil a. By bringing the highly extimate domains of music, literature and philosophy together he's embarking on a path that takes much repetition to bring about creative novelty. The result is both estranging and connective.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
2026
Online
7pm CET (Central European Time)
Monday February 16th / Reading Group 1: Introduction to Parallax View
Monday March 23rd / Reading Group 2: Stellar Parallax, Subject as “Inwardly Circumcised Jew”
Monday April 20th / Reading Group 3: Building Blocks for a Materialist Theology
Monday June 22nd / Reading Group 4: Unbearable Heaviness of Being a Divine Shit
Monday August 24th / Reading Group 5: The Loop of Freedom
Monday September 21st / Reading Group 6: Surplus Value to Surplus Power
Monday October 19th / Reading Group 7: The Obscene Knot of Ideology
Monday November 23rd / Reading Group 8: Closing
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Two ways to access: purchase the course as a stand-alone reading group via Actual Spirit’s Patreon or Substack, or join The Portal as a monthly/yearly member
Philosophy Portal is an online education platform opening space for the next generation of great thought, and cultivation of future philosophical mind. Philosophy Portal members get access to The Portal live event spaces, free access to courses. Couples are encouraged get a 2 for 1 deal. All Sales Final.