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.

• Shownotes

  Featuring:

  Cadell Last  @ PhilosophyPortal

  Simon van der Els @ LinkedIn

  Aspasia Karageorge @ https://www.aspasiapsychology.com/

  Tom Lyons

  Hosted by Tim Adalin @ https://www.timadalin.xyz

  The following shownotes are AI generated to give a rough sense of topics covered and to aid with search discovery.

  Summary

  This dialogue brings together philosopher Cadell Last, microbiologist-turned-shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, clinical psychologist Aspasia Karageorge, and insightful theorist Tom Lyons for an exploration of transformation in our current historical moment. Drawing on Stuart Kauffman's concept of "the adjacent possible," the conversation moves fluidly between capitalism and political possibility, the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies, the nature of fascism and simplified images, AI-induced psychosis and the dead internet theory, the irreplaceable role of the body in counter-transference, and whether we might understand AI as a form of necromancy. Threading through questions of what images possess us, how intimacy creates containers for transformation, and the difference between remote impossibilities and practical next steps, this dialogue honours both rigorous philosophical inquiry and imaginative leaps.

  Chapters

  00:00 Introduction: The Adjacent Possible

  04:49 Systems, Subjects & Political Possibility

  14:55 Metamorphosis: The Caterpillar & Butterfly

  26:20 Technology as the Radical Adjacent Possible

  39:44 Fascism, Images & Possession

  48:39 When Impossible Becomes Possible: Trump and Bernie

  51:29 AI Psychosis & Affirmation Without Pushback

  01:03:07 The Body Cannot Be Bypassed

  01:11:47 Relating to AI: Psychosis, Perversion, Neurosis

  01:23:28 The Cocoon Revelation: Dead Internet as Necessary Enclosure

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