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 six dynamic elements of the liberationist template at the spine of the book: the resonating, the interplay, the leap, the grounding, the future ones, and the last god. We go through what each of these means, and then Kirk presents his theory of SCALP, or the five elements that distinguish identity from self: sameness, categorization, anonymity, labeling, and projection. We finish with a discussion of how identity is the reason for what Heidegger refers to as “our greatest plight,” namely “the lack of a sense of plight.” Available here or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.