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Pyroseminar

On the first Sunday of every month I offer a seminar that encourages people go deeper into the subversive heart of pyrotheology from the comfort of their own homes. These seminars delve into incendiary philosophical and theological ideas in an endeavor to provide some good old-fashioned intellectual stimulation. But they're also designed to penetrate our hearts and do surgery to our souls. The ideas will help us discover how we might experience a deeper, richer and more engaged form of life.

In the contemporary world both scientism and superstition remain popular positions with regards to reality. Neither having a robust understanding of the transcendental that has been so central to the deepest religious traditions.

In this seminar, I will be outlining four different ways that thinkers have sought to do justice to this notion (the Sublime, Mystical, Deconstructive and Dialectic) and relate this to Pyrotheology.

These lectures can be watched live or later via Patreon. To access this - and all other - pyroseminars, you just need to be signed up to the Flame level, or above, on Patreon

PREVIOUS PYROSEMINARS INCLUDE:

  • Embracing the Absurd | Atheism isn’t Enough

  • Beyond Belief | Christianity and Ideology Critique

  • The Alien from Inner Space | Sin and Prometheus

  • On Love | The Unwanted Gift of Nothing

  • Embracing Failure | On Not Getting what you Want

  • The Tech of Pyrotheology | Transformance Art

  • The Tech of Pyrotheology | Decentering Practices

  • Freedom from Meaning | Drive, Grace, the Absurd

  • The Last Guru | On Fantasy and Transference

  • Escaping the Sitcom | On Brent and Gargoyles

  • Catching Light | Lewis and the Sublime

  • God After God | The Certainty of Doubt

  • Joined by Lack | The Ontic and the Metaphysical

  • Confronting the Holy | Whole or Hole

  • Losing the Lost Object | On Conversion

  • On Envy and Jealousy | Girard and Christology

  • Deranged Animal | Desire, Drive and The Thing

  • The Meaning in Life | Drive and the Transcendental

  • Alienation Times Two | Traversing the Fantasy

  • God Forsaking God | Conversion, Forgiveness, Joy

  • Who is No. 1 | Peterson, PC and the Unconscious

  • Is God Dead | The Event of Radical Theology

  • Mapping Pyrotheology | Returning to the Start

  • Problem or Symptom | The Zizek/Peterson Debate

  • The Self-Castration of God | Authority, Freedom, Kenosis

  • The Magic Trick of Christianity | Pledge, Turn and Prestige

  • Identical Wines | Salvation and Object a

  • A Contingent Gristle of the Real | Joker and Divine Violence

  • You Don’t Hate Mondays… | Class Antagonism in Marx

  • The Politics of Difference | Cultural Marxism or Cultural Capitalism

Earlier Event: August 21
Coffee and Concepts
Later Event: September 18
What is Pyrotheology?