Author: Matthew David Segall
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Audio of my International Whitehead Conference presentation at Munich School of Philosophy
This talk was delivered on July 29th, 2023 at 4:30pm at the Munich School of Philosophy. Thanks to Godehard Brüntrup for chairing the session. You can find the paper I am summarizing here: “Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism: Turning Idealism Inside Out“
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From Transformational Festival to Whitehead Conference and Back Again
On Wednesday I’ll board a jet-powered steel tube and sky-sail to Europe for a few weeks. I land in Madrid, Spain where I’ll immediately catch a shuttle to drive along the southern side of the Sierra de Gredos mountains across the boarder to the small town of Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal, just north of which is the…
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Love and Death in the Gaianthropocene (prologue to my talk at Boom Festival)
Sharing some thoughts I’ll expand upon during my talk at Boom Festival next week. A transcript of this video: Next week, I’ll be in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal to attend the Boom Festival. This festival is known for its psytrance, cultural offerings, and art. I’ve often heard it described as the European version of Burning Man, though I’m…
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Energy is Information, Information is Communication: Thinking with Vervaeke and Henriques
Have a listen to Greg Henriques and John Vervaeke exploring the limits of reductive naturalism and the dangerous of decadent romanticism: John and Greg got some thoughts stirring, which I shared in the video below: For more on the communicative ontology I am proposing here, see this article of mine in Process Studies on Whitehead…
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Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism: Turning Idealism Inside Out [draft article]
Below is a draft of a chapter I was asked to write for a book on Cambridge Idealism. It is still a bit rough in places and I’ll be continuing to update it in the coming weeks and months. I’ll be presenting some of the ideas explored in it at the International Whitehead Conference in…
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NYTimes profile on mycologist Merlin Sheldrake mentions Whitehead (and me)
Today’s New York Times featured a profile on my friend, mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. In addition to discussing the philosophical implications of his scientific research, the article shares a bit about his magical childhood and fascinating family. Do give it a read. Merlin was kind enough to mention a collaboration with me to sort out the…
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Crossing the Threshold on the War Machine Podcast
Yet another podcast discussing my book, this time with Matt from the War Machine podcast. We talk theurgy, the role of feeling and willing in our thinking, and how to experience the soul, God, and the cosmos after Kant’s critiques.
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Whitehead’s Ontology of Pure Feeling: Living in a Time of Dying Podcast
I had a lovely time dialoguing with Meghan on her Living in a Time of Dying podcast. Listen here.
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From German Idealism to Anthroposophy: The Spiritual Scientist Podcast
Mick Young invited me on his Spiritual Scientist podcast to discuss the importance of German Idealism in Rudolf Steiner’s development. I introduce the concept of ‘etheric imagination’ as a form of cognition by which we can consciously participate in the formative forces responsible for generating living organisms, including our own bodies. Participating in these etheric…
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Michael Levin’s Latent Space of Biological Form
Iain McGilchrist mentions my dialogue with Michael Levin a few weeks ago at the start of this video, before proceeding into an inquiry concerning the whereabouts of ideal form: Where are the forms in the ‘latent space’ of biological possibility? I think everyone in the conversation, including Iain, senses that asking “where”–while essential for noting…
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The End of “Philosophy of Freedom”
Our study of Steiner’s book isn’t merely an intellectual exercise; it represents a form of fellowship that has been palpable throughout our journey. Even though it’s saddening to conclude today, remember that we are merely finishing this book, with much more lying ahead of us. My lecture focuses on the final chapter, “The Consequences of…
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Topological Inversions in the Life, Death, and Rebirth of Human Beings (lecture by Rudolf Steiner during WW1)
Rudolf Steiner Nachlass-VerwaltungTranslated by ChatGPT4 GA 174b – Lecture Eight Stuttgart, March 15, 1916 CLICK HERE FOR A PDF OF THIS LECTURE TRANSCRIPT The last time we spoke here, during my previous presence, we examined some spiritual facts that relate to the life of the human soul after the human has passed through the gateway…
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Rudolf Steiner and Racism
Update Jan 31, 2024: The conversation continues on our Urphänomen Substack page. As a teacher, I do my best to actively encourage deep and sustained dialogue about the racism, implicit or explicit, that shows up in the statements or actions of any figure studied with my students. Many modern European and American thinkers, including all…
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Platonizing Biology: a dialogue with Michael Levin
Thanks to Karen for hosting this conversation on The Meaning Code. We started with a high level issue: the relationship between metaphysics and/or (philosophical) cosmology and the special sciences. I wanted to be sure he understood that I as a philosopher am in no way trying to tell scientists how to define or understand their…
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Mind and Life in the Cosmos
I’m sharing a version of a lecture I delivered for the Pari Center earlier this morning.
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The Integral Stage Authors Series (interview by Layman Pascal about “Crossing the Threshold”)
I’ve pasted the transcript below with timestamps (this is autogenerated from YouTube and so has some errors, but it is readable!). 0:34 welcome back to the author series on guess what The Integral Stage. I’m Layman Pascal on behalf of myself, Bruce 0:41 Alderman, and the Unspeakable future of life on Earth. And today we’re…
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Online Book Release Event this Saturday, April 29 at 12pm PT
My new book Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (Integral Imprint/Revelore Press) was published a few days ago. Next weekend (4/29 at 12pm Pacific), I’ll be doing an online book release event in my Discord server (you can access Discord from your browser if you don’t have…
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RevLeft Radio podcast on my new book
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Philosophy as learning to die: Woven Wings Podcast
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