Addressing fundamental questions for consciousness and civilisation today. Featuring luminary voices in altered states of conversation.
Hosted and produced by Tim Adalin.
Previously the Voicecraft podcast. See the Altered States Of Conversation YT channel @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKeq9IUfzw-QvDKP7N9K8rw and The Voicecraft Network YouTube channel which contains many dialogues held in the spirit of Voicecraft @ https://www.youtube.com/@voicecraftnetwork
Learn more about the project @ https://www.voicecraft.io
E150| What If The Way Is Shut? | Benjamin Studebaker, O.G. Rose and Tim Adalin | Political Philosophy & AI
What can be done if neither reform nor revolution can work? What is the right fight? Is there a path between dystopian control and collapse into chaos? With political theorist Benjamin Studebaker and philosopher O.G. Rose in dialogue with Tim Adalin.This follows the dialogues ‘What Are We Accelerating Towards?’ and ‘What is the Revolutionary Subject Today?’.Support this work on Substack at https://substack.com/@timadalin---Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e150-what-if-the-way-is-shut-w/-benjamin-studebaker-og-rose-and-tim-adalinBenjamin Studebaker's Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.comO.G. Rose Substack: https://ogrose.substack.comChapters00:00 Introduction: paths between chaos and control01:37 The Way Is Shut: Benjamin's thesis07:33 Virtue without political power13:23 Positive and negative despair21:56 Internalised limits28:43 AI, sovereignty and the right fight44:16 The restricted imaginarium1:00:03 What kind of conversation actually changes people?1:16:52 Catastrophe and the drone1:28:57 Pluralism and apophatic speechSubscribe to the Voicecraft Network YT channel @voicecraftnetwork (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC45fWOeXLZSGC1_hgdz0ugg) Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0
20 Sept 2026
E149| Serpent Lore, Indigenous Thinking, and Right Relation w/ Tyson Yunkaporta
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
17 Aug 2026
E148| Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI w/ Alexander Bard
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.
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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
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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 Violence
10:54 Chronomics: A New Paradigm of Time
26:18 Dystopian vs. Protopian Perspectives
36:48 The Shift from Capital to Attention
43:34 The Triad of Power: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real (Lacan)
49:00 Imaginary Power and Its Contexts
55:30 Sensocracy and the Future of Governance
1:03:43 The Tyranny of the Past and AI's Limitations
1:07:47 The Chaos of Future Politics
1:12:01 Why Space Gives Potency to Time
1:15:28 Influencers and Elites
1:21:32 Populism, Mobs, and the Future of Collective Action
1:29:57 Rethinking Communism and Religion
1:40:55 Girard on the Mob, and Art Against Fundamentalism
1:46:24 The Future of AI and Mathematics
2:00:07 Emergentism and the Nature of Consciousness
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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0
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Dr Michael Levin
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