In section 130 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about how beyng essentially occurs as the event, how no formula can say what is essential, how beings emerge out of beyng, and how strangeness is a common characteristic of beyng. From here we discuss the liberal tendencies to demonize alienation, negate nature,…

In sections 128 and 129 we read of human beings having exclusive access to beyng via the self, of nothingness, not as negativity, but as a no that is an essential, creative yes, and of the spurious distinction between affirmation and negation. We then talk about how these ideas point to problems with escaping the…

In section 127 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read of the intimacy of beyng that is attained via the fissure that is created thru the refusal. In this fissure can be found our trembling and the battle among the gods. We then discuss some possible implications of this framework for how the…

In sections 125 and 126 we read about the connections among beyng and God and being in philosophical history and in the creation process, how beyng attains its greatness by being that which the gods need, and of the necessity for art in whose work the truth is set in bringing being to beyng. We…

In sections 124 and the first half of 125, we read about the task of bringing the essential occurrence of beyng into the grasping word and how time must become the ecstatic playing field of the truth of beyng. From these perspectives we discuss communism as violence, the dangers of fraud yoga, and “everything must…

We read section 123 of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss its main points, including the trembling that expands the temporal-spatial playing field, refusal as the intimacy of the allocation, and defense against the plight as its preservation. We then use what we’ve learned to diatribe on “no one is illegal on…

In section 122, we read about the Leap as the thrown projection that carries out the truth of beyng. This thrownness testifies to itself, and the more the projector projects, the more he is thrown as one who is already thrown. As it throws itself into the open realm wherein it catches on to the…

In section 121 we go through an extended metaphor by Heidegger of “the scale.” On one side, place all objectively present beings and the machinations that congeal and entrench them, and on the other place the projection of beyng. Where does the needle go? Always to the former in order to prove the ineffectualness of…

We conclude section 120 in which we read how “thinking, as inceptual, grounds the time-space in its structure of transporting and captivating and penetrates the fissure of beyng in its uniqueness, freedom, contingency, necessity, possibility, and actuality.” This leads to discussions of how the modal logic inherent to anxiety treatment, and liberalism in general, prevents…

We start section 120 and begin to learn about the leap, which is “the leaping into a preparedness for the belonging to the event.” The there where the gods come and go is manifested by the leap. Through the leap we are appropriated by beyng as the ruth of beings. We then discuss how thought…