Altered States Of Conversation

Political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, author of The Way Is Shut, and philosopher-writer O.G. Rose explore what remains when reform and revolution are blocked. They discuss positive despair, hidden social limits, AI companions, autonomous weapons, sovereignty, and the search for a “right fight.” The conversation turns to voicecraft, pluralism, apophatic speech, and whether technology can reopen political possibility without guaranteeing liberation.

On right relation, serpent lore, truth and reality, with Tyson Yunkaporta, who works with Indigenous Systems Knowledge, Indigenous inquiry methods and complexity science to address global existential threats and issues in regenerative design. He is the author of Sand Talk, Right Story Wrong Story co-author with Megan Kelleher of Snake Talk.Chapters00:00 On talking properly04:31 Approaching circle, setting circle, keeping circle, closing circle08:23 The trouble with reciprocity16:36 Law and lore: what's real and what's true31:57 Flibbertigibbets, hard heads and two throats41:27 The serpent as master of semi-permeable boundaries46:06 Is the human being transitionary?53:01 Hyperstition, Harry Potter and poison as medicine57:05 Right destruction, wrong destruction, wisdom of crowds1:01:29 The basilisk, empire, and evil as simplificationFind a copy of Snake Talk at https://www.amazon.com.au/Snake-Talk-ancient-serpent-stories/dp/1923058460---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e149-snake-talk-w/-tyson-yunkaportaListen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

The return of philosopher Alexander Bard in dialogue on power, time, attention and AI in the liminal period associable to Capitalism and ‘Attentionalism’. This continues threads from the conversation ‘Where are we in history?’ in which the notions of paradigmatics, membranics, and archetypology framed how we might approach an understanding of the social and technological changes taking place today. See E146.---Support this work at Substack: https://timadalin.substack.com/Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e148-where-does-power-lie-today-time-attention-ai-alexander-bard---Chapters - mostly AI gen (these conversations aren't linear and rarely map well to chapter stamps)00:00 Intro (Recap of Where are we in history?)04:31 Beyond Economics: Sex, Power and Violence10:54 Chronomics: A New Paradigm of Time26:18 Dystopian vs. Protopian Perspectives36:48 The Shift from Capital to Attention43:34 The Triad of Power: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real (Lacan)49:00 Imaginary Power and Its Contexts55:30 Sensocracy and the Future of Governance1:03:43 The Tyranny of the Past and AI's Limitations1:07:47 The Chaos of Future Politics1:12:01 Why Space Gives Potency to Time1:15:28 Influencers and Elites1:21:32 Populism, Mobs, and the Future of Collective Action1:29:57 Rethinking Communism and Religion1:40:55 Girard on the Mob, and Art Against Fundamentalism1:46:24 The Future of AI and Mathematics2:00:07 Emergentism and the Nature of Consciousness---Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

On the challenging and often shadowed topic of feminine violence; seeking pathways toward understanding and healing for men and women. A live dialogue at the Voicecraft Network with three outstanding women, Adriana Forte, Valeria Ferreira and Pamela von Sabljar.Learn more @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e147-feminine-violence-adriana-forte-pamela-von-sabljar-valeria-ferreira---About the speakers:Adriana Forte is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring, she aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation. Connect with Adriana's work on Substack where she is releasing her new book @ https://theclab.substack.com/ Pamela von Sabljar is a new breed of speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros. Pamela has 25 years experience in leadership, personal development, and behavioral science. She has founded several systemic change projects and leadership programs in advanced self-awareness and self-leadership.Find out how to contact and work with her @ https://www.pamelavonsabljar.com/Valeria Ferreira is a dialogic practitioner with a deep grasp of philosophies across the East and West, currently studying Mandarin to engage Chinese philosophy. She is a member of the Voicecraft Network.---0:00 Intro01:23 The Significance & Shadow of Discussing Feminine Violence05:03 Distinctions: Feminine as Psychological Principle11:10 Etymology and Intentionality of Violence18:26 What do we hold power over that we don't admit to?27:25 What aggression do we need to integrate in ourselves?34:22 Sexual Power, Visibility, and Modernity46:29 What violence has been done to the feminine?56:54 What are we willing to not see, to stay in relationship?01:04:38 The Role of Motherhood and Generational Healing01:18:34 The Collective Work of Healing Feminine Shadows1:23:34 What does this land as, in a man's body?

Michael Garfield, an evolutionary biologist and complexity thinker who has personal UAP experiences, joins to explore consciousness, anomalous encounters, and how biology and culture collide. Conversations jump from ontological shock and psychedelic overlaps to machine learning metaphors, interspecies interiority, and the possibility of both material and imaginal contact. Short, provocative, and wide‑ranging.

Alexander Bard, philosopher, musician and author who studies digital culture and paradigms. He explores the shift from industrialism to informationalism and the rise of attentionalism. He outlines paradigmatics, membranics and archetypology. He discusses social scale, loyalty, decentralization, chronomics and how attention is being redefined and corrupted in the digital age.

A multimodal experiment in altered states of conversation, sensing for qualities of the Future Human. This took place at The Big Dinner: like pirate radio, but with dinners hosted at homes around the world, held by the Voicecraft Network. Welcoming psychonaut and hyperhuman theorist Carl Hayden Smith, dreaming mysteries teacher Sarah Janes, biologist and neo-Shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, artist Jon Garner, field facilitator Pamela von Sabljar, joined by philosopher Tim Adalin.To learn about the next opportunity to participate in The Big Dinner, stay in touch with the project by following the breadcrumbs, and subscribing on Substack here: https://timadalin.substack.com/---00:00 Intro to The Big Dinner and Guest Intros5:30 The somatic praxis begins — dropping into the body together17:00 The oracular world: dreams and signs as glimpses of the future20:30 "The future is analog" — embodiment as our edge over AI30:40 The soul, the placenta, and the modern terror of dying44:45 Child time, elders, and the case for communal rhythm47:40 "Presence is longevity" — Carl on humans as nested ecologies1:01:45 Advertising as mind control — and a gentler vision of technology1:10:50 Reclaiming our capacity for grief1:21:00 Decoding the languages of whales, plants, and fungi1:33:00 The reality of violence — and the "wizardry" of containing itAccess the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/the-big-dinner-future-human-w/-carl-hayden-smith-simon-van-der-els-sarah-janes-pamela-von-sabljar-jon-garner-tim-adalinListen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Featuring O.G. Rose, philosopher exploring social coordination; Michel Bauwens, commons theorist advocating cosmolocal peer production; and Benjamin Studebaker, political theorist on geopolitics and militarized reshoring. They discuss U.S.-China strategy, Europe's rearmament and social costs. They explore modes of exchange, cybernetic coordination, peer production, institutional incompleteness, and the search for new social coordination amid accelerating change.

Dave Snowden, polymathic complexity practitioner and creator of the Cynefin framework, explores anthro-complexity and what makes humans distinct. He discusses entanglement over simple relationships, why workshops fail and immersion works, the rise of deme structures and new cultural roles, and the urgent risks pushing societies to reinvent decision-making and shared living.

Sarah Janes, a researcher and author focused on dreaming and ancient mysteries, delves into the fascinating world of dreams as tools for sense-making. She explores the etymology of 'dream' and 'mystery' and discusses how language shapes perception. Janes highlights the importance of dreaming in the face of rapid technological change and advocates for analog practices to revive our dreaming selves. She connects ancient practices with modern insights, emphasizing the cultural significance of dreams in prophecy, healing, and spiritual rebirth.