Philosophy Portal

Apr 07 2024 32 ep. 101 mins 57

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This is a podcast that seeks to bring philosophy into the Real qua Impossible, that is: the little piece of the present moment that resists our desire.

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Christian Atheism (w/ Slavoj Žižek)

Apr 07 2024 58 mins

Discussion with philosopher Slavoj Žižek focused on his latest book Christian Atheism.

Singularities (03) ft. Javier Rivera

Mar 25 2024 121 mins

Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimension of religion. The third episode hosts Javier Rivera, philosopher and writer attempting to think.

Negativity in Psychoanalysis (w/ Duane Rousselle, Mark Gerard Murphy)

Mar 11 2024 146 mins

This discussion features psychoanalyst Duane Rousselle and theologian Mark Gerard Murphy to discuss their new edited volume Negativity in Psychoanalysis.

Singularities (02) ft. Peter Robinson

Mar 04 2024 151 mins

Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimensions of religion. The second episode features Peter Robinson, the CTO of an Australian tech start-up, Tribees, but finds time to explore his philosophical interests in the relationship between reason and intuition, and between the intellectual and the existential.

What Do Men Want? (w/ Nina Power)

Feb 21 2024 111 mins

Nina Power and I discuss her book What Do Men Want? (2023) which focuses on some of the contemporary issues that specifically center around masculinity and male identity.

Singularities (01) ft. Jacob Kishere

Feb 12 2024 113 mins

Singularities is a new series aiming for a more narrative investigation into the personal dimension of religion. The first episode hosts Jacob Kishere, creator of Sensespace, a project that focuses on unfolding dialogues related to Insight, Wisdom & Healing. https://philosophyportal.online/

Reading Lacan's Ecrits (Part 2)

Feb 06 2024 124 mins

This conversation with Samuel McCormick is the second in a series titled "Reading Lacan's Ecrits". The first conversation prepared Philosophy Portal for teaching Lacan's Ecrits, and this second conversation opens up a post-course reflection and a deeper ritual conversation inspired by Lacan's writings.

The Idea of the University (w/ David McKerracher, Ann Snelgrove of Theory Underground)

Jan 13 2023 121 mins

In this discussion, David, Ann and I discuss the importance of thinking The Idea of the University in the contemporary neoliberal and digitised political-economic landscape. The Idea of the University is a book by existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers, and written to serve an educational reconstruction project in post-World War II Germany. Now we discuss this book in

Death and World Grounding (w/ Johannes A. Niederhauser)

Dec 30 2021 125 mins

Johannes A. Niederhauser argues that death is a central notion in Martin Heidegger’s work on the questions being and time, and even takes us to the core of Heidegger's entire thinking path. Thus, Heidegger is not merely approaching death as an existentialist problem, of how to become authentically mortal. Heidegger is suggesting that the abstract concealment and explo

What is the "Phenomenology of Spirit"? (w/ Mika Leinonen, Eric Jobe, Chetan Anand)

Dec 27 2021 161 mins

G.W.F Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is often conceived as Hegel's classic work, and one of the most important texts in the history of philosophy. How are we to conceive of this work? This question can be framed in many ways: How are we to understand the procedure or methods by which it was written? What are the main concepts that define this work and how are we