UNDERGROUND
PHILOSOPHY
JUNE 12th
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TICKETS AVAILABLE
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TECHNO-FEUDALISM
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JUNE 12th - TICKETS AVAILABLE - TECHNO-FEUDALISM -
WHERE THOUGHT COMES TO LIFE.
Live in Melbourne..
Underground Philosophy is where thought comes to life.
Here we resist the pull of algorithms, echo-chambers and ideology.
Guests might be well known or influential. They might be of rare integrity but known to just a few.
When you come to Underground Philosophy, you don’t come for the names alone, but to connect and participate in thinking you can feel.
Returning June 12th at The Castle
You are invited to dinner and conversation at The Castle (the picture below was our setup last time out.) Here we integrate periods of participation as well as shared attention / audience time, making room for dialogue and talks on stage.
The topic for our first event at The Castle is Future Melbourne.
"Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse.” - Yanis Varoufakis
Join us for a powerful evening as we relate with the provocative concept of Technofeudalism, a lens for understanding the evolving power dynamics of our digital age.
Popularized by economist Yanis Varoufakis, technofeudalism describes a world where tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Meta act as digital overlords, extracting "rent" from users’ data and attention, replacing capitalism’s markets and profits with platform dominance and behavioural control.
But to understand the implications of technofeudalism more comprehensively, we need to integrate more than Varoufakis’ focus on economics and power—crucial though it is. We also need to understand how power and technology are effecting changes to our social and moral imaginations, our relation to value, and indeed our very contexts for belonging with each other and the world.
What creative potential can we discern in our own lives and relations that can support a meaningful, empowered response? This question in particular will be the focus of our follow up event.. announced live at the end of the evening, welcoming a special guest to introduce the core invitation..
Where & When
THURSDAY 12th JUNE. 6.00-9.30pm
The Castle Hotel - Upstairs
North Melbourne
Runtime
6.00 - Doors
6.30 - Opening Address, Invitations & Provocations (Audience & Stage)
7.00 - Dinner & Conversation (Participation)
8.15 - Emergent Dialogue (Audience + Participation)
9.30 - Light Close --> Transition to Speakeasy
10.30 - Final Close
Underground Philosophy | Technofeudalism
Underground Philosophy is where thought comes to life. Over dinner & conversation we will explore the Future of Culture.
Underground Philosophy | The Future of Culture
Underground Philosophy is where thought comes to life. Over dinner & conversation we will explore the Future of Culture.
Underground Philosophy | Cultural Shamanism
POCKET YOUR PHONE | SLOW DOWN TIME | OPEN THE OVERTON
Underground Philosophy is where real voices tap into depth, beneath the noise, repetition, and constriction of modern life.
Underground Philosophy | The Mystery of Consciousness
POCKET YOUR PHONE | SLOW DOWN TIME | OPEN THE OVERTON
Underground Philosophy is where real voices tap into depth, beneath the noise, repetition, and constriction of modern life.
Underground Philosophy | Indigeneity, the Sacred, and Techno-Cultural Evolution w/ Tyson Yunkaporta
POCKET YOUR PHONE | SLOW DOWN TIME | OPEN THE OVERTON
Underground Philosophy is where real voices tap into depth, beneath the noise, repetition, and constriction of modern life.
Underground Philosophy: An Initiation
POCKET YOUR PHONE | SLOW DOWN TIME | OPEN THE OVERTON
Underground Philosophy is where real voices tap into depth, beneath the noise, repetition, and constriction of modern life.
Voicecraft Live 9 | War & Unity
The referendum in Australia and the unfolding conflict in the Middle East have amplified the tensions and challenges of sharing voice together. This is an invitation to practice what it means to presence, connect, and cultivate understanding about many of the critical dynamics which influence our whole-being relating to these topics.
Voicecraft Live 8 | Weaving a Living Network
The next Voicecraft Live welcomes an evening of immersion in questions of common unity, of what it means to meet and relate with culture and difference, of what it means to communicate.
Voicecraft Live 7 | Transformative Philosophy
The next Voicecraft Live welcomes an evening of real philosophical conversation and experiments in meta intelligence.
Voicecraft Live 6 | An Interfaith Dialogue on Meaning, Tradition & Progress
Joining transformative philosopher Tim Adalin, the next Voicecraft Live welcomes an evening of interfaith exchange with guests across different religious and spiritual contexts, interwoven with community participation. Our first two confirmed guests will be Bishop Lindsay Urwin, Vicar of Christ Church Brunswick, and Kirk Fisher Roshi, an ordained teacher of the Diamond Sangha Zen lineage, practicing as part of the Melbourne Zen Group.
Dreams in the Age of Technology (Voicecraft Live V)
In much of society the contents of dreaming consciousness are sidelined as a strange or comical irrelevance. Yet the dream remains a refuge for the private gnosis of psyche: a domain where rich yet nebulous patterns about the dreamer and the collective psyche compose in mysterious relation. In this accelerating digital age, what role might dreams have to play in the orientation of individual and collective becoming?
Hosted by transformative philosopher Tim Adalin, this is Voicecraft Live: a context for real conversations about matters of profound importance in our time. Welcoming hearts and minds, this participatory experience invites facilitated group conversation intermixed with spotlight dialogues with invited guests who have unique insight to share.
Artificial Intelligence: Wisdom & Power (Voicecraft Live IV)
As momentum builds and the wheel begins to steer itself, is there yet time to relate more consciously to the immensity of AI's emerging influence in the lifeworld?
Hosted by transformative philosopher Tim Adalin, this is Voicecraft Live: a context for real conversations about matters of profound importance in our time. Welcoming hearts and minds, this participatory experience invites facilitated group conversation intermixed with spotlight dialogues with invited guests who have unique insight to share.
The Future of Psychedelics in Australia
In February 2023 Australia legalised the medicinal use of MDMA and psilocybin in specific therapeutic contexts. But what does 'psychedelic' really mean? And what does a truly wise personal and cultural relationship with psychedelics ask of us, individually and collectively?
Hosted by transformative philosopher Tim Adalin, this is Voicecraft Live: a context for real conversations about matters of profound importance in our time. Welcoming hearts and minds, this participatory experience invites facilitated group conversation intermixed with spotlight dialogues with invited guests who have unique insight to share.
Poiesis
You are invited to step into an embodied journey that contemplates the meaning and spirit of participation in culture at this unique period of societal transition. It’s the foreground to the launch of monthly Voicecraft Live events in Melbourne during 2023, taking forward the Voicecraft lineage of live, transformative philosophy.
Imagine an intimate festival of ideas, grounded in heart, community and purpose. A mix of facilitated discussions, filmed talks with locally and globally relevant guests, and collaboration with artists, builders, and elders. A context that supports the formation of real relationships, welcoming wisdom, curiosity, and enjoyment.