Voicecraft The Voicecraft Project

An exploration of what it means practically and metaphysically to participate in our evolving digital age, defined by the Swedish philosopher Alexander Bard as the paradigm of attentionalism.

What does it mean to participate in transformation? How can we respond in the context of emerging technological power?


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Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io

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00:00 - Introduction
3:00 - Retraction, Not Revolution
4:24 - Participation and Individualism
13:34 - Jung, (In)dividuation and the Digital Remaking of Tribes
23:00 - Transition from Tribe to Empire
28:24 - Dynamics of the Internet Elite
38:27 - Time Reclamation
43:17 - Praxis and Metaphysics / Participation, Emergence Vector Theory and Attentionalism
57:00 - The Cult of Transparency / Function of the Barred Absolute
1:10:00 - Attentionalism and the Free & Open Algorithm
1:18:52 - Discussion on Emergence Vector Theory and Participation
1:27:03 - Three Types of Storytelling: Mythos, Pathos, Logos
1:29:26 - Modes of Orientation and the Relationship Between Mysticism and Analysis
1:45:44 - Question: Can Virtualities Collide if They Lack Potency?
1:52:35 - The Importance of Both Mysticism and Analysis
1:54:00 - Conclusion

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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/core-philosophy-for-the-digital-age-alexander-bard-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin

Welcoming Dr Les Spencer in dialogue with generalist thinker Tyler Hollett in response to the theme of “Intentional Disruption”, part of the Cultural Shamanism expedition inside the Voicecraft Network which begins with a multi-part exploration of the question: “Why do things fall apart?”



This is the first hour of a multi hour conversation, with many more to follow. This is an opening and a gesture.



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Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e97-intentional-disruption



Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e97-intentional-disruption



Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0



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Dr Les Spencer



Les is a post-doctoral action researcher, international conference speaker, writing on inter-connecting between natural life world, social life world and global futures. Action research bridges biomimicry, links between geo-emotional, land topography; and social topography; and people sciences including forensic science, psychosocial disaster response (UN consulting), harm minimizing, community psychiatry, neuro-psychobiology, risk-sharing, consulting to global governance, peace studies, relational mediating and reconciliation ceremonies in post-conflict contexts; hermeneutics and futures studies, behavioural science, clinical sociology.



https://www.laceweb.org.au/ - “A vast library of wellness resources.”



Tyler Hollett



Tyler is a father of two, and researcher of whatever seems necessary to support the healthy formation of communities, online and offline. He has been instrumental in the development of several discord communities with members in the tens of thousands. He can be contacted at themetagora@gmail.com

An exploration of humanity's relation to technology, evolution, and perennialism, through the lens of transhumanism and hyperhumanism.

Welcoming philosopher Cadell Last and hyperhuman theorist Carl Hayden Smith in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

This was a live podcast recording for the Voicecraft Network expedition into the relationship between humanity, technology and nature.


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Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e96-transhumanism-hyperhumanism-cadell-last-carl-hayden-smith-tim-adalin

Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Collaborate with Tim @ https://www.timadalin.xyz

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Cadell Last is a philosopher and founder of Philosophy Portal, with an interdisciplinary background in fields of evolutionary anthropology, psychoanalysis, complexity science, and big history.

Find Cadell Last's Philosophy Portal YouTube channel:  @PhilosophyPortal  & the Philosophy Portal website at: https://philosophyportal.online/

Carl Hayden Smith is Associate Professor of Media in the School of Arts & Creative Industries at UEL and is the former Head of Research and Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) at the Institute for Creativity & Technology, Ravensbourne University London.

Links through to Carl's work include: The Museum of Consciousness: https://www.themoc.org & The Cyberdelic Society: https://www.cyberdelicsociety.com

Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, people, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage.

This Voicecraft.Network invites relating with the cultural, philosophical, and attentional significance of Sam Harris, one of the most well known public intellectuals of at least the last 15 years.

In participation are Voicecraft members Dr. Aspasia Karageorge (Clinical Psychologist), Tim Adalin, Kyle Lawrence, Tyler H, and Tom Lyons.

Learn more about the participants in the show notes below.



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Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/sam-harris-the-man-the-meme-culture-lab

Clip of Zizek on Buddhism & Himmler: https://youtu.be/VWnngmzPtlQ

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Is there legitimacy to the promise of crypto in the context of socio-economic exchange? Where are we in political economic history? How do psychology, narrative and metaphysics influence the integrity of communications technology and its mediation of exchange?

Welcoming civilisational and commons theorist Michel Bauwens and philosopher O.G. Rose, in dialogue with Tim Adalin and members of the Voicecraft Network.

This follows dialogues in the Commons Series, and particularly previous sessions on Value & Civilisation with Forrest Landry, O.G. Rose, and Michel Bauwens.



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Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io & https://www.voicecraft.network

Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e94-crypto-and-the-commons-w/-michel-bauwens-og-rose-tim-adalin-the-voicecraft-network

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Exploring the frontiers of consciousness research and the human experience of meaning, truth and technology. Welcoming Carl Hayden Smith, Associate Professor of Media at the University of East London, DMTx participant at Imperial College London and prime theorist of Hyperhumanism.


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0:56 - What is DMTx (Extended State DMT as Transhumanist Technology)?

3:16 - What is next for DMTx research?

6:30 - Questioning the Cultural Philosophy of DMTx as Sacrament / Ritual / Medicine

10:10 - The Creative Potentials of DMTx & Comparison to Neuralink

18:51 - Conscience and Ethics in the navigation, facilitation, usage and integration of Psychedelics / DMTx

29:00 - How much are we magnetised by the spell of our own projections?

35:32 - Questions of epistemic elitism

38:58 - The phenomenology of Death

46:40 - Individuation, integration and non-duality in the context of psychonautics, explored in relation to Carl’s exceptional history of exploration

1:00:50 - Hyperhumanism, transhumanism, meaning and suffering

1:09:00 - Holotechnica, dreaming, the mundane and the sacred



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Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e93-beyond-dmtx-conscience-hyperhumanism-carl-hayden-smith-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin



Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io & https://www.voicecraft.network


Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0