Special Announcement: Real Speculations

I am excited to announce that my next book, Real Speculations: Thought Foundations, Drive Myths, Social Analysis, is now available. This book is the result of the last 2-3 years of my thinking while building Philosophy Portal. The core of the book offers chapters operating at the intersection of deep primary source reading of the foundations of modern philosophy, and on-going work informed by active collaborations in both online and institutional contexts.
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​The three main sections of the book are correlated to coursework at Philosophy Portal: Hegel = Thought Foundations, Nietzsche = Drive Myths, Lacan = Social Analysis. The book as a whole is also situated between an Introduction that offers a dialectical mediation of New Atheism, and a Conclusion that points towards the theopolitical potential of the concept of Christian Atheism.
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​The book description, table of contents, as well as links to pre-order, can be found below:
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​ABSTRACT: Real Speculations is a work of speculative philosophy both informed by the foundational thought of figures like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Lacan, but also embedded in a concrete living process of the construction of an online educational platform, Philosophy Portal. Throughout this work you will be introduced to the living dialectical core of contemporary culture war tensions, the speculative foundations for thinking major issues in theopolitical-economy, the nature of the drive which is capable of birthing mythological foundations for key social processes (e.g. education, teaching, leadership, etc.), as well as a social analysis that is grounded in analytic notions of libido/sexuality as the core of constructivism. All of these dimensions are reflectively inscribed in real living relations and ideas that are part of an emerging online network tarrying with a world beyond institutional integration or conventional-normative processes of development. Consequently, this work will be of service to both those directly associated with the works of Philosophy Portal, and/or those who are generally interested in the leading edge of theology, politics, education, and broader civilisational conversations in the context of the major social transformations we are currently experiencing.
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​TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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​Preface: On Real Speculations
​Introduction: Dialecticising New Atheism

​(1) THOUGHT FOUNDATIONS: GLOBAL MIND
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​(1) Ordinary Consciousness to Absolute Knowing
​(2) Phenomenology of Spirit Is Not A Theory of Everything
​(3) Formative Moments: Understanding to Differentiation
​(4) Phenomenological Turn: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel
​(5) Science of Logic?
​(6) Philosophical Speculation for Political Science
​(7) Logic for the Global Brain
​(8) Systems and Subjects: In Reflection and Dialogue
​(9) Stakes of Technosocial Sublation
​(10) Thinking the Commons as a Question
​(11) Sacred Processing, Profane Sublation
​(12) Church of Contradiction

​(2) DRIVE MYTHS: SPIRITUAL BILDUNG
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​(13) The Nietzschean Core
​(14) The Logic of Zarathustra
​(15) The Field of Nietzschean Interpretation
​(16) Belonging on the Hard Road
​(17) Game A/B, Enter the Scale Problem
​(18) Prepare for Imminent Disruption
​(19) Mystical Immediacy to Metaphysical Mediation
​(20) What Is Xagick?: Love and Law, Will to Other
​(21) Hyperhumanism: An Attempt to Think Outside of Post/Transhuman Discourse
​(22) Education in a Time of Transition, Or Education as Transition?
​(23) Critical Media Theory in the Age of AI: Dialectical Reflections on McLuhan
​(24) School of Thinking and the Idea of the University

​(3) SOCIAL ANALYSIS: CIVILISATIONAL REAL
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​(25) Libido and the Importance of its Impossibility
​(26) What Is Sex?!; Or The Necessity of Psychoanalytic Philosophy
​(27) Singular Negativity Towards Political Universality
​(28) Imaginary to the Real and Back
​(29) Écrits for Today: Religion and Das Ding, Loss to Lack, and Patipolitics
​(30) Writing for (a) First Cause
​(31) United by Timenergy Lack and States for Timenergy Theory
​(32) Challenges of Patriarchy for Emancipatory Politics
​(33) Homeostasis to Sinthome
​(34) Reflective Science, From Replication Crisis to Thinking Crisis
​(35) Philosophy, Quantum Science… and Psychoanalysis
​(36) The Revenge of Philosophy

​Conclusion: Atheism as the Truth of Christianity

To celebrate the launch of Real Speculations I will be offering an introduction and overview of the book at a live session in The Portal on Monday May 5th at 830pm CEST. All members of The Portal will get access to the event. However, non-members of The Portal can get access to the event by sending proof of purchase of the book. You can either send proof of purchase via a direct message on Substack, or via email at cadell.last@gmail.com, and I will create a mailing list for everyone to access our live Portal session on May 5th.