Voicecraft Dispatch | Humanity, Technology, & Why Things Fall Apart
Recent Voicecraft releases and breadcrumbs to follow.
Recent months have seen multiple expeditions launched in the Voicecraft Network. This dispatch shares a few of those public recordings.
First up is a dialogue featuring
and Carl Hayden Smith , “Transhumanism & Hyperhumanism”, which kicked off the Humanity, Nature & Technology expedition, which last week invited members into a deep wrestle with the meaning of philosopher Forrest Landry’s Substrate Needs Convergence argument, which precedes a session with Forrest himself.This dialogue has been received incredibly well by a wide array of listeners. If the topic doesn’t appear immediately relevant, let me invite you to invest a moment, as I think you’ll find the meaning at stake here to cut to the very core. In view are questions pertaining to the meaning of humanity and our relation to technology, evolution, and perennialism. Transhumanism and hyperhumanism are something like waypoints that aid the framing of that exploration. At the same time, they point to critical emergent phenomena and contexts for response well worth contending with.
Next up — a continuation of the Commons series
Most recently — an intimate dialogue commencing the Cultural Shamanism expedition
In this dialogue, Voicecraft participants Elder Les Spencer and Tyler Hollett engage the meaning of intentional disruption at psychological and social levels of analysis. This conversation was initially set to be released privately for the Voicecraft Network, and continued for multiple hours unrecorded after the conclusion of this public release. But it represents something core to the atmosphere of real relation that’s present in the Voicecraft project that seemed worthwhile to share with those of you paying attention from a distance, who might feel drawn to step into participation.
Blood, sweat, tears and extraordinary efforts toward understanding laid the foundation for this exchange.
Additional private releases for the Voicecraft Network involve extended additions of a selection of the above, as well as beautifully generative group dialogues recorded in the style of Freeform on topics of Art & The Sacred, Endogenous Psychedelics, Vision, Magic & Indigenous Knowing. Becoming a member of the Voicecraft Network allows you access to participate in these sessions (and many others) and cultivate the craft of voice. You can learn about the network here.
Discernment on the Way,