# Quentin Meillassoux

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More Christ Episode Ninety-Four: Dr Christopher Watkin: The Bible, the Meaning Crisis, the City of Man & the City of God

Welcome to More Christ. We seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this ninety fourth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Dr Christopher Watkin.    Chris is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at …

Ecstatic Naturalism

Tripp chats with Leon Niemoczynski about a philosophical approach to sacred nature.  Leon Niemoczynski teaches in the Departments of Philosophy and Theology at Immaculata University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and he is also currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Depart…

John Caputo on the Future of Continental Philosophy: Homebrewed Christianity 121

The one and only, living legend, and Homebrewed frequenter John Caputo is back!  Think of this as a pump primer for the HBC-3d with Caputo at Soularize.  Both his first and second visit rocked the podcast.  Even more exciting are these class lectures Caputo is sharing here at HBC.  These lectures…

26. The Great Outdoors (w/ Gordon White)

Gordon White is a chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, and permaculture designer based in Tasmania. He podcasts and teaches through the vehicle of Rune Soup, the world's largest magic academy, and he writes prolifically -- not only on the Rune Soup blog but in several incredible books. Gordon's b…

Episode 186: Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, Part Two

In this episode, JF and Phil continue their conversation on the wedge, their figure for the epistemological divide between approaching reality from the heart and exploring it with the mind. As the discussion unfolds, the wedge begins to reveal itself not as a rigid binary but as a spectrum—one that…

LONGUE DURÉE Pt. 1 (w/ Ray Brassier)

Two titanic figures in contemporary theory join us for two separate and strongly divergent episodes on the status of revolutionary thought in political philosophy today. Ray Brassier influenced a generation of philosophers not only with his outstanding and highly rigorous writing, but also his abso…

Meillassoux's Failed Coup

Quentin Meillassoux's 2006 After Finitude seemed like it was going to revolutionize philosophy. It didn't. We talk about its radical implications and why it may still have traction today.

Quentin Meillassoux (b.1967)

Tonight, we delve into the tranquil depths of thought with Quentin Meillassoux, a philosopher who invites us to step beyond the familiar territories of human perception into the boundless realm he labels the great outdoors. His ideas of speculative materialism and the profound contingency of nature…

Being Finds itself in Nonbeing as Becoming

Being is birthed by nonbeing, and nonbeing is birthed by being. Whatever is "before" this simultaneous co-arising is a nothing that "proceeded" the dialectic between something and nothing, sometimes called the "absolute" nothing because it is without relation to something, so that it isn't even not…

A Metaphysics of Possibility

In this solo episode of Psyche, I explore a provocative idea from philosopher Quentin Meillassoux: the possibility of a God that does not yet exist, but may one day come into being. Drawing from his essay The Immanence of the World Beyond, I unpack his argument that the only true necessity in the u…