Live in Melbourne
Underground Philosophy is where spectators become participants. Experience live philosophy where audience members have the opportunity to ask questions, contribute to the field of meaning, and engage in conversations that venture through the ideas shaping our time.
On Thursday 19th of November, we will return to Caz Reitop’s for an evening spirited by the topic of AGENCY and IMAGINATION, hosted by Jurn Ma.
Agency and Imagination
What truly inspires the imagination? How are events in the world shaped? What is agency, and where does our agency lie today?
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Sometimes, without our knowing, stories can trap us. But myths and dreams can also open our sense of the possible, and awaken us to the truths shaping our lives.
In this way, the imaginal appears to create new pathways for agency in the world.
Yet sometimes we can be lost in a waking dream. Cut off from real contact with the ground. Suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Or perhaps: our 'agency' may be moved by someone else, some system, or something beyond our conscious awareness.
And how agentic is our action then?
Runtime
5.30 - Doors (Gather upstairs in the cocktail lounge)
6.00 - Start (take your seats at 5.55pm downstairs in the Vault)
8.00 - Event End
8.00 - Onwards: Optional speakeasy upstairs in the cocktail lounge. (There's a separate standup comedy event downstairs at 8.30.)
HOW THIS WORKS
In this format of Underground Philosophy, participants take a seat in the audience before a small stage in the underground vault beneath a cocktail bar. Your spoken participation is optional, but throughout, members of the audience, as well as long time members of the Voicecraft network and invited guests, will rotate places in dialogue on stage, facilitated by the host on the evening.
WHERE & WHEN
Thursday 19th NOVEMBER. 5.30-8.00pm
Caz Reitop’s Dirty Secrets - Session starts downstairs at 5.55pm
Collingwood, Melbourne
Underground Philosophy is where thought comes to life.
Here we resist the capture of algorithms and dissociating ideology. When we come to Underground Philosophy, we come to connect and experience thinking you can feel—philosophy with soul.