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, the importance of inkling over wonder, and we finish with the reading of a list of actions that Kirk made, called “the Heideggerian solution to insomnia,”…

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 the Event, the empty calories of lived experience, and the passing by of the Last God toward which our stillness is disposed as we seek the…

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 determining the style of inceptual thinking in the other beginning, the trained compulsion to presence all phenomenon, the prooflessness of philosophical propositions due to the transformation…

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 his book on Heidegger, what “originarily historical” thinking is, and how philosophy is strange because it is “the self establishing and being transformed immediately into relations…

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…

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 overpowering of humans by a semblance of the Gigantic, and then we head out into a discussion of some of the issues surrounding Heidegger’s involvement with…

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 the metaphysical transition, and the difference between Beyng and Being. We also talk about identity vs. self, the machinations of story, and the appropriative tendencies of…

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 for what understanding him might mean for ourselves and others. Available here or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.