What do you do if neither reform nor revolution can work? What is the right fight? Is there a path between dystopian control and collapse into chaos? With political theorist Benjamin Studebaker and philosopher O.G. Rose in dialogue with Tim Adalin. Following the dialogues ‘What are we accelerating towards?’ and ‘What is the Revolutionary Subject Today?’.
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Keywords
political philosophy, Benjamin Studebaker, O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin, The Way Is Shut, reform vs revolution, capitalism and the state, chaos and control, the right fight, positive despair, restricted imaginarium, AI and sovereignty, techno-feudalism, apophatic speech, pluralism, postliberalism, social imagination, Altered States of Conversation, Voicecraft
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: paths between chaos and control
01:37 The Way Is Shut: Benjamin's thesis
07:33 Virtue without political power
13:23 Positive and negative despair
21:56 Internalised limits
28:43 AI, sovereignty and the right fight
44:16 The restricted imaginarium
1:00:03 What kind of conversation actually changes people?
1:16:52 Catastrophe and the drone
1:28:57 Pluralism and apophatic speech
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O.G. Rose is a pen name consisting of Michelle’s maiden, middle, and their shared last name. While at the University of Virginia, Rose spent several years working collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop in Charlottesville, Virginia. Rose now lives on a farm, manages a wedding venue named Mead Lake, operates Frozen Glory Photography, and teaches piano using visuals from Rose’s Pattern Method.
A finalist for the 2020 UNO Press Lab Prize and 46th Pushcart Nominee, Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Streetlight Magazine, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, West Trade Review, ellipsis, Poydras Review, O:JA&L, Burningword, and Broken Pencil.
You can find O.G. Rose’s website at https://www.ogrose.comBelonging Again: An Address can be purchased from Amazon here.
The Map Is Indestructible can be purchased from Amazon here.
Daniel is also a member and core contributor the Voicecraft Network @ https://www.voicecraft.network
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Benjamin Studebaker is a political theorist with a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge. He's the author of two books - The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut, and Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies.
Find more writing and links to connect with Benjamin at his website: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/
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Tim is the founder of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation. You can connect with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
On X @ https://x.com/tim_adalin
And on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-adalin/
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Voicecraft conversations deepen how the world is known across themes of psyche, culture and nature.
The Voicecraft Project is comprised of a media & events platform, academy, and participatory membership network.
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