Cadell last
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Cadell Last is a philosopher, general thinker and writer interested in questions about human existence and evolution.
He is author of Global Brain Singularity, a book focused on the nature of temporality and the future of consciousness, as well as co-author of Sex, Masculinity, God with Kevin Orosz and Daniel Dick.
In his current work, the tensions between sex and love, as well as death and immortality, drives much of his thinking.
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Sex, Masculinity and God—Future discourses on sexuality, men and spirituality
This an open exploration of sexual energy, masculine identity and
metaphysical meaning.
Based on their book by the same name this exploration is navigated by Daniel Dick, Cadell Last and Kevin Orosz, three men of different existential style, belief and desire; but three men united in struggle to understand the nature of sexual energy, the difficulties of masculine identity, and connection to some other or beyond of the self.
The adventure starts with a focus on the division producing what we refer to as masculine and feminine energy or identity. Instead of closing this difference up with intuitions of unification, their discourse plays in sexual difference in order to see what new territories can be discovered in the fields of science, religion and psychoanalysis.
What emerges include reflections on the meaning of historical identity, complexities of contemporary identification, paradoxes of new masculine movements, struggles of emotional negativity, disorientation of ethical duty and moral coherence, weird otherness of possible future technologies, and the strange unity of love and death.
This is not a quest for final answers but rather an invitation to explore even deeper levels of the unknown and the forbidden.