Dear friends,
Join us tonight, Wednesday, January 18th, at 8:00 PM where members of the Intellectual Deep Web will join us for an all stars bout. Attendees include Alexander Bard, OG Rose, Alex Ebert, Thomas Hamelryck, Daniel Fraga, and Raven Connolly.
This is a free public event with Q&A, so invite your friends and share widely. You can find the zoom link on our events page here:
https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha-1/lrk43vbtjx9xqbn6sbgw9xx0chrnvo-perda-82fe9-44g6a-n7xbr-zddkj-fz3zd-99kw2-76lfp-33z3d-dk9dp
Intellectual Deep Web
The Intellectual Deep Web is a forum founded by Alexander Bard and Peter Limberg. Layman Pascal has described it thus:
The Intellectual Deep Web (a name that parodies and transcends the notorious "intellectual dark web") is a contingent of high-powered neo-philosophers lurking at the edges of the so-called Emerge field.
They are voracious, combative, obscenely well-read, performative, enticing, offputting, fast & deeply attuned to the leading edges of technosocial, occult, spiritual, psychoanalytic and cultural unfoldment. Their vision of upgrade in a time between worlds is a Dark Renaissance.
This concept takes archaic futurism, technophilia, phallic vigor, immanent transcendence, interactivity, emergent informational worldviews, artistry, metalocalism and emergent religion and combines all that with an intoxicating affirmation of negation, dissonance, abysses and exclusionary boundaries. Oh, and don't forget their deep skepticism about the unprocessed sexual and aggressive tendencies that might be locking the rest of us into a toothless and doomed utopianism.
https://www.whatisemerging.com/profiles/what-the-hell-is-a-dark-renaissance
Recent Podcasts and Videos:
Parallax Sangha #9:
Parallax Sangha #9: Thomas Hamelryck: The Return of Ritual and Prohibition
With the guiding star of Rene Girard, Thomas Hamelryck analyses the present culture and the need to distinguish between ritual time and times of prohibition. Without the release valve of ritual carnival transgression, the murderous scapegoat mechanism and mob will capture the culture; whereas with too much prohibition, the culture becomes rigid and tyrannical. In the present culture, we have ‘unsatisfying ritual time’ in the form of banal entertainment; our prohibitions are unclear and tend to devolve into scapegoating. This is why we need to understand the tension between sutric law (prohibition) and tantric transgression (ritual) and bring back intelligent religious prohibition and satisfying art and collective ritual.
What is Parallax Sangha?
Parallax Sangha is a hybrid digital classroom and living community dedicated to studying, practising, and contemplating matters of the soul and psyche. We are a network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering public and private online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe.
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