Voicecraft Dispatch | Hyperhumanism and the Revolutionary Subject
Recent releases on questions of identity, collaboration, becoming and the future of humanity..
Recent releases on the Voicecraft podcast continue to develop themes on what it means to really participate in our time.
The most recent release asked: what are the prospects of social and political revolution? How can we understand revolutionary subjectivity today? Who, what, when, and where is the revolutionary subject?
The dialogue was inspired by a Philosophy Portal conversation between Cadell Last and Michel Bauwens, this dialogue welcomes political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens.
Previously, Voicecraft hosted an Underground Philosophy event in Melbourne with a long time collaborator of the project, the hyperhuman theorist, psychonaut, and founder of The Museum of Consciousness Carl Hayden Smith. It was filmed at the start of an evening of transformative sonic experience with The Museum of Consciousness at Underground Philosophy, live in Melbourne. In it we begin to explore the question: are we human yet? It only just begins to scratch the surface, but in its own way, it shines a light on the possibility for education, embodiment and becoming which bears intimately on the project of revolutionary subjectivity.
Next is a reflective conversation about that evening of collaboration between Underground Philosophy and The Museum of Consciousness. We began by asking: what are the challenges and prospects of integrating transformative sound with philosophy? As the dialogue progressed, I enjoyed asking Carl to reflect on his philosophy across questions of religion, friendship, and the cultivation of community in general.
Tomorrow’s release features a dialogue on presence with Andrea Hiott, Simon van der Els, and Anna Gyllenklev, which shows another side to this question. It considers presence in relation to the machine, inoculating against coercion, and the revolutionary subject more broadly. It’s held in the more contemplative, improvisational mode of Voicecraft Network sessions, and I look forward to sharing it.
More to follow,
Discernment on the Way,