Philosophy Portal @ Wake Festival

Radical Theology Meets Speculative Philosophy in Belfast this April 27th to May 1st

Peter Rollins’ Wake Festival is a five-day transgressive festival that mixes the best in incendiary intellectual exploration with underground art, music, magic, comedy, and talks to forge an experience that embodies the destabilising essence of pyrotheology.

I have been attending Wake Festival for the past two years, both as a guest and as a contributor, to discussing issues related to radical theology and modern philosophy.

I am excited to announce that this year I will be at Wake Festival as a collaborator, not only as an individual, but as Philosophy Portal. I had the idea at last year’s Wake Festival that there is the potential for a huge synergy between the speculative philosophy that is being developed at Philosophy Portal, and the radical theology that is being developed by Rollins’ at Wake. In fact, part of the reason why Philosophy Portal developed a full course on Christian Atheism was to develop the conditions of possibility for making that synergy more real.¹

Wake Festival focuses on bringing together a ragtag collection of dissidents, heretics, fools and fundamentalists from all over the globe who are focused on learning how to affirm life in all its dirt and depth. This year Philosophy Portal will attempt to add to that affirmation of life in all its dirt and depth with three full morning sessions inspired by our work in the Christian Atheism course. Below you can find the full schedule for our planned discussions, Q and A, and breakout groups at Wake:

The discussions / Q and A:

1. Christian Atheism: Beyond the Emergent Church with Peter Rollins

2. Radical Theology: the Church and Digital Subjectivity with Barry Taylor

3. Catholicism & Protestantism with Mark Gerard Murphy

4. Judaism and Christianity with Eliot and Kirsty Rosenstock (

   Hyperpsychology
   )

5. Death of God with

   Helen Rollins

6. Religion and Secularity with Christian Atheism Course Panel

7. Prohibition and Transgression with Thomas Hamelryck

8. Belonging Again with Daniel L. Garner (

   O.G. Rose
   )

9. Zoomers and Christianity with

   Dimitri
   Crooijmans

10. Final Reflection with Christian Atheism Course Panel

We will also host Breakout Groups on all three days, led by Kevin Course, Rob Zahn and Heidi Kristensen, focusing on the following questions:

1. What is a Church?

2. (What is the relationship between) Religion and Culture?

3. (What is the relationship between) Religion and Politics?

If you want to get involved directly through Philosophy Portal, you can find all information at the link below:

If you want to learn more about radical theology and its relationship to speculative philosophy, you can find a few select discussions below between Peter Rollins, Barry Taylor, and myself:

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1. Christian Atheism