Be not afraid! This email contains around 15 hours of dialogue. That’s a lot to share.

It’s been a little while since the last dispatch.

What follows are the four most recent conversations on the Voicecraft podcast, followed by two publicly shared dialogues on the Voicecraft Network channel (one of which is a synthesis and reflection session on the previous 3 months of material.)

Following that are invitations to events in Melbourne, and a note to save the date for the late afternoon / evening of Sunday September 21st, where Voicecraft’s Underground Philosophy series will be collaborating with Carl Hayden Smith’s Museum of Consciousness for what should be an awesome evening.

Discernment on the Way,

Voicecraft dialogues

Welcoming political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, author of Legitimacy In Liberal Democracies and The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut. We dialogue on the crises of trust and legitimacy in politics and institutions; the impact of technofeudalism on communication; power, intractable disagreement, civil war, violence and cultural shamanism; and pathways toward authentic political change—even if the way is shut.

Cadell Last joins for a dialogue working with core themes from Last's new book: Real Speculations: Thought Foundations, Drive Myths, and Social Analysis. This is a comprehensive journey into core philosophy and psychoanalysis, intended for a network of networks engaging in common effort to understand and participate in the becoming of our time.

An exploration of AI, human intelligence, dangers of cognitive atrophy, and lines of flight in response to territorialisation. Welcoming the creator of the Cynefin Framework and iconoclastic generalist thinker Dave Snowden, who argues that AI represents artificial or algorithmic inference rather than true intelligence.

Exploring the tensions between ideology and reality, or ‘indestructible maps’ and participation in mystery and incompleteness, welcoming the philosopher, Voicecraft Network contributor and author of The Map is Indestructible, O.G. Rose in the form of Daniel Garner. This conversation continues the Cultural Shamanism series and begins with an explication of global pluralism.

Publicly shared Voicecraft Network dialogues

Exploring recent themes on the ‪@Voicecraft‬ podcast. Welcome to the Voicecraft Network: a home for conversational alchemy. This dialogue features O.G. Rose, Tom Lyons (hosting), Jon Garner, Kyle Lawrence and Cam Duffy.

Exploring critical questions of psychopathy in our time. Welcome to the Voicecraft Network: a home for conversational alchemy. This dialogue features Aspasia Karageorge, (clinical psychologist), Simon van der Els (shamanic practitioner and microbiology PhD), Tom Lyons (community builder and co-founder of Ecofo), Cam Duffy (philosopher of psychedelic therapy), also joined by Kai and Charity part way through.

Event Invitations

• On Friday 5th September at Northcote Social Club in Melbourne, Cantrips, the artist behind the VC intro song is headlining this music gig. Pat makes beautiful music and if music gigs are your thing, this one will be a good time. Find Cantrips' music on Bandcamp here.
  

• Then on Friday September 12th, I am once again hosting a dialogue for Dr Joseph Camilleri's initiative Conversation at the Crossroads. The theme is Just War or Just Peace?
  You can learn more and find tickets here @ https://www.crossroadsconversation.com.au/events/just-war-or-just-peace

Other bits

• You can work with me one and one here: https://www.timadalin.xyz/one-and-one
  

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