Voicecraft Dispatch | Recent Releases
Featuring Jamie Wheal, Matt Segall, Indy Johar and members of the Voicecraft Network.
It’s been over a month since the last Voicecraft Dispatch. In that time there have been a series of unique releases.
The most recent features the architect, maker and Mission Steward of Dark Matter Labs, Indy Johar, filmed during a two week trip to London in February.
I found Indy to be a remarkable mind grappling with the crest of what it means to design in our world today. We explored themes of care and control in the context of technology, institutions, and how the the psychology of transformation, indigeneity, and the emergence of new worldviews weighs into the mix.
You can learn more about Indy and Dark Matter Labs in the show notes here.
February’s releases on the Voicecraft Podcast featured
, and members of the Voicecraft Network who gathered to reflect on recent exploration on the channel, hosted by Tom Lyons.The first of those was with Jamie. It’s one that would have developed quite differently if it was held in person. But despite the additional noise in communication that was present in the relationship, I believe there’s tension here worth metabolising.
The dialogue sought in part to relate with the questions and challenges at the forefront of Jamie’s thinking, three years post the publishing of Recapture The Rapture. And it found some footing in the mud of uncertainty between the desire to democratise transcendence, and the reality of life-death process as epitomised by narratives of exodus.
You can access the show notes for the episode with Jamie here.
Following this was a dialogue I enjoyed immensely with the brilliant Matthew Segall, a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences, as well as to the study of consciousness.
We explored the meaning and becoming of democracy, academia, and philosophy, informed by the thought of Alfred North Whitehead and process-relational thinking more broadly.
You can access the show notes for this podcast here.
The final piece of media in this dispatch was created by the Voicecraft Network, intended to share reflection on recent content and in that way offer a unique way for listeners and readers to connect with others exploring similar threads.
Material referenced goes as far back as the E83 dialogue with Elder Les Spencer titled ‘Hidden Arts of Radical Healing’, but also included reflection on more recent episodes like ‘E88| Aubrey Marcus & Matias De Stefano’.
Les himself is part of the conversation below — and while the dialogue quickly evolved beyond reflections and into a course of its own, I found it a worthy event to listen in on. Thank you to Network members
, Aspasia KG, High Root and Tom Lyons for your participation.Themes explored tended to respond to questions including: “Why do people experience blocks in the process of connecting to themselves and others? How do we cultivate contexts and skills that support healthier modes of relating to difference? What does it mean to relate with, through and beyond tragedy?”
You can access the show notes for this episode here.
And you can learn about applying to become a Voicecraft Network member here.
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