Voicecraft Dispatch | Real Praxis Meets The Limitations of Broadcast
Invitations & recent content w/ Zak Stein + VC Network on Israel/Palestine
For those in Melbourne and others particularly interested in the culture-making efforts of VC, this is another quick reminder that Underground Philosophy: An Initiation takes place this Friday at The Motley Bauhaus in Carlton from 7PM sharp.
Learn more and get tickets here. Read more in the previous post here.
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Recent VC podcasts include the following with Zak Stein, which was broken up into two parts.
This one began what I believe to be an essential grapple with the tensions of participating in the well treatment and evolution of lineage traditions and religious worldviews. For the astute, one key dynamic at stake here is the ethics of teacherly authority embodied in praxis (rather than proselytised by mere theory). The dialogue began to open this up well, but I felt where it needed to go wasn’t somewhere I felt appropriate to share publicly in pure broadcast. If you feel piqued or interested by that, perhaps you might consider that a call to step closer into participation. If you don’t, then that is a partial but relevant factor that contributes to my choosing not to share publicly, and that’s all good.
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The next release was a dialogue recorded May 24 in the VC Network for a session titled Real Violence: Israel, Palestine, Justice & Justification.
It invited a deep process of relating and understanding with the intensities of this context. If you seek to slow down for some mindful processing of the reality and cultural milieu of this context you might find something here you haven’t found anywhere else. I am immensely grateful to everyone who showed up to contribute and receive. You will find reflection on dynamics apparent in recent Piers Morgan ‘debates’ between the son of a Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan Yousef and ‘left-wing’ counterparts Rahma Zein and Abby Martin.
For those who listen: there’s a 15 minute stretch just before halfway through that was personally valuable for processing, but which ultimately comes through as a stretch on the speculative / hopeful side that is probably misleading (though harmless) for most, but I hope remains valuable for those following closely. While my sense of the merest glimmer of non-performative and non-instrumentalising care on the part of Rahma Zein regarding the context of Yousef’s expression is likely just that — the very merest of glimmers at best — I do still think it’s profoundly interesting to consider a sense of the ‘real’ intimated in interaction between the two through the lens of a longing for the manifestation of genuine, mutual receptivity and response to the context of tragedy and value implicit in the perspective of those involved. In our session, Tyler in particular gives important voice to the ideological / identity / social commitments that render genuine receptivity between Zein and Yousef highly unlikely. But this does not discount the value in the inquiry as to ‘what’ might call us deeper into attention and energetic investment / hope here. These sessions are shared, at least in meaningful part, with hope to connect to those seeking a maturity and slowness of process in service of psychological and social health. Thank you to VC members
, and everyone else (without Substacks and locatable in the show notes) for your contributions.Discernment on the Way,
Tim