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Episode 27: Can a Concept Fathom Its Necessity?
In Section 23, entitled Inceptual Thinking – Why Thinking Out of the Beginning, we read about confronting the end of the first beginning, the greatest occurrence being the most...
Episode 26: Into the Extreme Domain of Oscillation
In Section 22 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), Heidegger continues his discourse on “inceptual thinking.” Inceptual thinking is the “inventive thinking of the truth of beyng,” it...
Episode 25: Who Is the Projector?
In Section 21 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), entitled “Inceptual Thinking (Projection),” we read that “the inventive thinking of the truth of beyng is essentially projection.” What...
Episode 24: The Most Dangerous Question
In Ep 24, we complete our reading of Section 19. We discuss the life of those who sacrifice themselves in the preparation for the other beginning, meditation on the...
Episode 23: Self as Meditation on Beyng
In Ep 23, we start reading Section 19, entitled “Philosophy (On the question: who are we?). Here, Heidegger asserts that “philosophy is meditation on beyng, which is necessarily meditation...
Episode 22: The Powerlessness of Thinking
In this episode we read Section 18 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), which is titled “The Powerlessness of Thinking.” The obverse of this, however, is what we...
Episode 21: Plight as the Truth of Beyng
We read Section 17 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). Titled “The Necessity of Philosophy,” this section centers on how philosophy is grounded in “the plight.” Coming from...
Episode 20: Whether, When, and How We Belong to Being
In this episode we read Section 16 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss how philosophy is useless yet sovereign knowledge, the need for meditation to de-fix...
Episode 19: The Grounding of the Truth of Selfhood
In this episode we read section 15 and parts of section 16 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss what the “philosophy of a people” is, how...
Episode 18: Corrections Are Not Breath
In Ep 18 we finish Section 14 and its emphasis on the difference between philosophy and worldview, which, as Heidegger says, are so opposite no image can even capture...
Episode 17: The Most Remote Trembling
In Ep 17 we discuss restraint as “an openness for the reticent nearness of the essential occurrence of beyng” and “the most remote trembling of appropriative intimations out of...
Episode 16: Being Appropriated in Stillness and Silence
In Ep 16 we read section 13 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss restraint as the basic disposition of Dasein, look at how restraint gives way...
Episode 15: The Story To End All Story
In Ep 15 we focus on story vs. non-story. How do you keep a child away from story? How do you teach them non-story? We also look at Heidegger’s...
Episode 14: History vs. Historiology
In Ep 14 we go over some of the book’s core terms (Dasein, Grounding, Beyng, History), after which we discuss the distortions of Shanahan’s views on IVF as an...
Episode 13: The Strife Between Earth and World
In Ep 13 we read about Dasein as the site of strife between earth (self) and world (identity), about Beyng as grounded in the abyss of time-space, about how...
Episode 12: The Identity-Anxiety Industrial Complex
In Ep 12 we read section 8 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss the distinction between earth/self and world/identity, the other beginning as a domain of...
Episode 11: Dislodging from the Worldview
In Ep 11 of Leaping Cholla Podcast we read about surpassing the objectively present determining transcendence that assumes the human being is already known, discuss the connection between Event...
Episode 10: How Remote the God
In Ep 10 of Leaping Cholla we read about the remoteness of the last god in the place of the highest decision, the possibility that there won’t be events...
Episode 9: The Renunciation of the Refusal
It’s dark in the yurt, and we’re working through the basic disposition of the other beginning, realizing how to renounce the refusal of Beyng is to possess it, exploring...
Episode 8: Heidegger Cures Insomnia
In Episode 8 of the Leaping Cholla Podcast we discuss the unique simplicity of the thoughtful moment, the intimations and withdrawals in which the last god comes and goes,...
Episode 7: The Passing By of the Last God
In Ep 7 of Leaping Cholla Podcast we discuss the taking of byways through the indirectness of the effects of philosophy, the appropriation of Dasein by the turning of...
Episode 6: Thinking vs. Moralizing
In Ep 6 of Leaping Cholla we continue reading through the challenging Section 5 of Contributions to Philosophy (of The Event). Discussed here are the importance of restraint in...
Episode 5: For the Few Who Question
Episode 5 of the Leaping Cholla Podcast dives into section 5 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger with discussions on “presencing” as Derrida explains it in...
Episode 4: The Event, SCALP, and Identity
In Episode 4 of The Leaping Cholla Podcast we read section 3 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Martin Heidegger, which presents his early outline of the...
Episode 3: The Truth of Beyng
In our third episode, we read Section 2 of the book and talk about the question of the truth of Beyng, the hollowness of the constancy of Being, the...
Episode 2: The Other Beginning
We start reading the book, Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), one sentence at a time. We wrestle with what is most question-worthy and its avoidance, the assumptions of...
Episode 1: Why We’re Doing This
In our inaugural episode, we both give some backstory on how we discovered Heidegger, discuss the experiences that led to his philosophy resonating with us, and delineate our hopes...
Episode 28: The Shackles of Organization
In sections 24 and 25 of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about the aberrant demands on inceptual thinking, sovereignty over the masses thru the shackles...