Parallax

Parallax is a European online media platform run by Tom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny that publishes essays, webinars and lectures on contemporary society and culture.

• Conversations with Andrew Sweeny and Alexander Bard on YouTube
• Pageau, Bard, Hamelryck, and Sweeny - Religion for the Apocalypse
• Digital duel - Archaic humans in the networked apocalypse (talk with slides)
• The return of prohibition and ritual (talk with slides)

Philosophy portal

Philosophy portal is an EdTech initiative by anthropologist and philosopher Cadell Last, who has a PhD from the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Last organizes online courses on major thinkers and philosophers like Hegel, Nietzsche and Zizek, and their contemporary relevance.

• The Nietzsche dialogues (part 3 of a series on Nietzsche): Nietzsche and Mimetic Theory
• Girard's Sutra, Nietzsche's Tantra (talk with slides)
• The logic dialogues (part 3 of a series on Hegel's Science of Logic): Brain sciences and artificial intelligence
• Book chapter Nietzsche's tantra and Girard's sutra" in the book "Abyssal Arrows: Spiritual Leadership Inspired by Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (2023), edited by Cadell Last and OG Rose.

Technosocial

Technosocial consists of artist Owen Cox and author Daniel Fraga. In their interviews with various thinkers and scientists, they explore how new technologies will reshape human societies and allow humans to redesign themselves.

• Religion, desire and machine learning
• The Girard Sessions: Owen Cox, Daniel Fraga and I go through René Girard's magnum opus "Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World" one chapter at a time. We are at chapter 3.