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E148| Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI w/ Alexander Bard

E148| Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI w/ Alexander Bard

The return of philosopher Alexander Bard in dialogue on power, time, attention and AI in the liminal period associable to Capitalism and ‘Attentionalism’. This continues threads from E145 - ‘Where are we in history?’ in which the notions of paradigmatics, membranics, and archetypology framed how we might approach an understanding of the social and technological changes today.

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E147| Feminine Violence | Adriana Forte, Pamela von Sabljar & Valeria Ferreira

E147| Feminine Violence | Adriana Forte, Pamela von Sabljar & Valeria Ferreira

On the challenging and shadowed topic of feminine violence; seeking pathways toward understanding and healing for men and women. Welcoming three thinkers, practitioners, and leaders in dialogue—Adriana Forte, Pamela von Sabljar, and Valeria Ferreira—in conversation at the Voicecraft Network.

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E146| UAP and Disclosure for Experiencers and Skeptics | Michael Garfield in dialogue with Tim Adalin

E146| UAP and Disclosure for Experiencers and Skeptics | Michael Garfield in dialogue with Tim Adalin

Evolutionary biologist, complexity thinker and UAP experiencer Michael Garfield joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on UFOs, entity encounters, and the strange territory where consciousness studies, evolutionary biology, complex systems, the ontologically shocking, information theory and the imaginal meet. Can we engage the strange without becoming impotent, in a way that actually matters for how we live, belong, and make sense together?

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E145| Membranes, Paradigms, Archetypes w/ Alexander Bard and Tim Adalin

E145| Membranes, Paradigms, Archetypes w/ Alexander Bard and Tim Adalin

Where are we in history? What is the central question for social philosophy? What paradigm might be replacing capitalism? What will become of humanity in the age of information and attention? How can re-thinking a philosophy of membranes, paradigms, and archetypes help us situate living in the world today?

Welcoming the return of philosopher Alexander Bard in conversation with Tim Adalin about membranics, paradigmatics, and archetypology in the chaos between capitalism and attentionalism.

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E144 | Future Human w/ Carl Hayden Smith, Simon van der Els, Sarah Janes, Pamela von Sabljar, Jon Garner, Tim Adalin @ The Big Dinner

E144 | Future Human w/ Carl Hayden Smith, Simon van der Els, Sarah Janes, Pamela von Sabljar, Jon Garner, Tim Adalin @ The Big Dinner

A multimodal experiment in altered states of conversation, sensing for qualities of the Future Human. This took place at The Big Dinner: like pirate radio, but with dinners hosted at homes around the world, held by the Voicecraft Network.

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E143| What Are We Accelerating Towards? w/ Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose and Tim Adalin

E143| What Are We Accelerating Towards? w/ Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose and Tim Adalin

On geopolitical shifts, civilisational cycles, and the potential for new social coordination mechanisms in an increasingly frenetic world. This dialogue welcomes the return of political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

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VC Network | Movement and Philosophy w/ Seth Dellinger, Jurnee, Corey Karuna-Manawa, Tim Adalin

VC Network | Movement and Philosophy w/ Seth Dellinger, Jurnee, Corey Karuna-Manawa, Tim Adalin

Exploring the philosophy of movement — what it means to move well, the relationship between stillness and awareness, and how physical practice becomes a vehicle for self and world discovery. Welcoming movement practitioners Seth Dellinger, Jurnee, Bek and Corey Karuna-Manawa.

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E141| The Dreaming Mysteries, Incubation, and Ancient Initiatory Rites w/ Sarah Janes

E141| The Dreaming Mysteries, Incubation, and Ancient Initiatory Rites w/ Sarah Janes

Welcoming Sarah Janes to dialogue on the esoteric history and culture of dreaming, consciousness, mysticism and technology. She is the author of Initiation Into Dream Mysteries, a psychomagic journey to awaken lucid dream consciousness. Sarah is a researcher, curator, retreat/workshop facilitator who has traced esoteric dreaming techniques back to ancient Greece and Egypt.

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VC Network | The Revolutionary Subject (Voicecraft Synthesis Session)

VC Network | The Revolutionary Subject (Voicecraft Synthesis Session)

Bringing together themes from recent Voicecraft episodes. Exploring the nature of choice, the cultivation of courage, the perils of totalitarianism, and what constitutes the revolutionary subject in our current moment. With VC Network members O.G. Rose, Tom Lyons (hosting), Kyle Lawrence, and Simon van der Els.

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VC Network | The Adjacent Possible (The Big Dinner)

VC Network | The Adjacent Possible (The Big Dinner)

Dialoguing at the first Big Dinner, working with themes of AI, the adjacent possible, systems and possibility, dead internet theory, fascism, images, and transformation. The Big Dinner is pirate radio with dinners hosted at a network of homes around the world, hosted by The Voicecraft Network. Welcome to the Voicecraft Network: a home for conversational alchemy.

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E139| Cosmic Drives, Intuition, AI, and the Soul w/ Iain McGilchrist and Tim Adalin

E139| Cosmic Drives, Intuition, AI, and the Soul w/ Iain McGilchrist and Tim Adalin

Welcoming renowned psychiatrist and philosopher Iain McGilchrist in dialogue on the nature of intuition, power, and how attention shapes our world. Moving from neuroscience to metaphysics, we explore the relation between cosmic drives, the left and right hemispheres, attention, religion, power, good, evil, AI and the soul.

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E138| Presence And The Machine w/ Andrea Hiott, Simon van der Els, Anna Gyllenklev, Tim Adalin

E138| Presence And The Machine w/ Andrea Hiott, Simon van der Els, Anna Gyllenklev, Tim Adalin

What is presence? How can we inoculate against coercive programming? How does presence relate to the revolutionary subject? This dialogue welcomes philosopher and neuroscientist and host of Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott, microbiologist and shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, design ontologist Anna Gyllenklev, in dialogue with philosopher Tim Adalin.

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E137| Who or What Is The Revolutionary Subject Today? w/ Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose and Tim Adalin

E137| Who or What Is The Revolutionary Subject Today? w/ Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose and Tim Adalin

What are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject? Inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

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