YouTube video here: Chapter 3 - Fichte's Choice Welcome to Lecture 4 and Chapter 3 (Part 1) in Less Than Nothing titled “Fichte’s Choice”. In this episode we will be approaching the second figure in the quartet of German Idealism: Johann Fichte. Fichte represents a break with the Kantian metaphysical tradition, a break represented in a … Continue reading Chapter 3 – Fichte’s Choice (Part 1)
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Chapter 2 – Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You
YouTube video here: Chapter 2 -- Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You Welcome back for another dive into Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing. Here in lecture 3 we approach Chapter 2, entitled “Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You” which is an ode to the structure of Christian tragedy and … Continue reading Chapter 2 – Where There Is Nothing, Read That I Love You
What Should We Do with Our Brains? From Cognitive Science to Psychoanalysis
YouTube video here: What Should We Do with Our Brains? From Cognitive Science to Psychoanalysis I am preparing an upcoming workshop on the topic of thought and how we should relate to thought in the modern world. How should we act today? How should we educate today? How should we relate to others today? What … Continue reading What Should We Do with Our Brains? From Cognitive Science to Psychoanalysis
The God Delusion: Towards a Materialist Atheist Synthesis
YouTube video here: The God Delusion: Towards a Materialist Atheist Synthesis I this [article] I want to both introduce you to an interesting tension in modern philosophical theory and also introduce you to a potentially interesting new way to approach this tension. The tension I am speaking about is the tension of the existence or … Continue reading The God Delusion: Towards a Materialist Atheist Synthesis
Chapter 1 – Vacillating the Semblances
YouTube video here: Chapter 1 - Vacillating the Semblances In this second lecture of Less Than Nothing, we are starting the first chapter, which is the first of three chapters in Part 1 — The Drink Before, and entitled “Vacillating the Semblances”. In Vacillating the Semblances we are going to be focused mostly on what … Continue reading Chapter 1 – Vacillating the Semblances
Jacques Lacan and the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real
Video: Jacques Lacan and the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real In this [essay] I want to introduce you to psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s concept of the triadic structure of the mind under the notions of the imaginary-symbolic-real formula. However, I not only want to introduce you to this concept, I also want to attempt to convince you that the geometrical … Continue reading Jacques Lacan and the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real
Slavoj Žižek or Jordan Peterson? Both Please!
Video: Slavoj Žižek or Jordan Peterson? Both Please! So it seems like Žižek heard the criticisms regarding his approach to the political phenomenon of Jordan Peterson and has responded quite clearly. In this response he attempts to remind us of the ways in which the “radical left” or the “identity politics” left has marginalized his voice … Continue reading Slavoj Žižek or Jordan Peterson? Both Please!
Introduction: Eppur Si Muove
YouTube video here: Introduction -- Eppur Si Muove In this series we are going to attempt to go through chapter by chapter Hegelian philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s major works Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012). The point of this overview and analysis is to open to a broader audience the main ideas … Continue reading Introduction: Eppur Si Muove
The Real of Ayahuasca Visions
The following are narrative representations of the phenomenal content of ayahuasca visions. These representations attempt to capture a depth and richness of cognitive activity that are admittedly "beyond representation". The context of these descriptions are as follows: Each of the three events were the first three events of my personal experience experimenting with the states-of-mind … Continue reading The Real of Ayahuasca Visions
Posters/Presentations
(American Society for Cybernetics - 2014) Global Brain and the Future of Human Society (Poster: World Future Society - 2014) End of Biological Reproduction (Poster: Rejuvenation Biotechnology - 2014) (Pathways to Indefinite Lifespans - 2014) (Global Brain Speaker Series - 2013) Chimpanzee Nest Construction in Southwest Cameroon (Poster: Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology - 2010)