Altered States Of Conversation

What is Power, Really? | Nietzsche, Death of God, Slave Morality, Altered States | Layman Pascal

1.5K views · 1w ago · 1:57:08

Guest: Layman Pascal

What did Nietzsche mean by the will to power, and is it enough to answer the death of God? Layman Pascal, author of Nietzsche, All-Too-Nietzsche, in dialogue with Tim Adalin on command and obedience, master and slave morality, power over nature vs making with reality, and whether we should go full Nietzsche.

Topics: The will to power · Command and obey · Who was Nietzsche? · Did Nietzsche's insight come from altered states? · Master and slave morality · Power over or making with

What If The Way Is Shut? | Benjamin Studebaker, O.G. Rose and Tim Adalin | Political Philosophy & AI

7.8K views · 3w ago · 1:48:33

What can be done if neither reform nor revolution 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.

Topics: The Way Is Shut: Benjamin's thesis · Virtue without political power · Positive and negative despair · Internalised limits · AI, sovereignty and the right fight · The restricted imaginarium

Indigenous Thinking, Right Relation, and Serpent Lore | Tyson Yunkaporta in dialogue with Tim Adalin

1.5K views · 1mo ago · 1:16:49

Guest: Tim Adalin

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.

Topics: On talking properly · Approaching circle, setting circle, keeping circle, closing circle · The trouble with reciprocity · Law and lore: what's real and what's true · Flibbertigibbets, hard heads and two throats · The serpent as master of semi-permeable boundaries

Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI | Alexander Bard

3.3K views · 2mo ago · 2:03:13

Guest: 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’. Support this work at Substack Chapters - mostly AI gen (these conversations aren't linear and rarely map well to chapter stamps)

Topics: Beyond Economics: Sex, Power and Violence · Chronomics: A New Paradigm of Time · Dystopian vs. Protopian Perspectives · The Shift from Capital to Attention · The Triad of Power: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real (Lacan) · Imaginary Power and Its Contexts

UAP and Disclosure for Experiencers and Skeptics | Michael Garfield in dialogue with Tim Adalin

815 views · 4mo ago · 2:24:58

Guest: Tim Adalin

Evolutionary biologist, complexity thinker and UAP experiencer Michael Garfield joins Tim Adalin for a dialogue on UFOs, entity encounters, and the strange territory where consciousness studies, evolutionary biology, complex systems, the ontologically shocking, information theory and the imaginal meet.

Topics: Meeting the strange where you are: evolutionary biology & the UFO · Telos, self-organisation & ontological shock · Integral philosophy & the Buddhist tetralemma · Has it become sayable? Psychedelics, channeling & attentional capitalism · Three frames: psyop, projection & the external other · The economy in ontological shock & noise in machine learning

Where Are We In History? Attentionalism, Capitalism, Violence | Alexander Bard

2.3K views · 4mo ago · 1:31:52

Guests: Alexander Bard, Tim Adalin

Where are we in history? What is the central question for social philosophy? What paradigm might be replacing capitalism? What will become of humanity in the age of information and attention? How can re-thinking a philosophy of membranes, paradigms, and archetypes help us situate living in the world today?

Topics: Where are we in history? · What is 'paradigmatics'? · What is 'archetypology'? Plus definition of 'membranics' · How much is our sense of inside and outside (membranes) in flux today? · What ideologies and material pressures shape our belonging today? · Shamanoids as go-betweens & the birth of religion

Future Human | ft. Prof Carl Hayden Smith, Sarah Janes et al. @ The Big Dinner

804 views · 5mo ago · 1:48:41

Guests: Future Human, Prof Carl Hayden Smith

A multimodal experiment in altered states of conversation, sensing for qualities of the Future Human. This took place at The Big Dinner: like pirate radio, but with dinners hosted at homes around the world, held by the Voicecraft Network.

Topics: The somatic praxis begins — dropping into the body together · The oracular world: dreams and signs as glimpses of the future · "The future is analog" — embodiment as our edge over AI · The soul, the placenta, and the modern terror of dying · Child time, elders, and the case for communal rhythm · "Presence is longevity" — Carl on humans as nested ecologies

How Nations and Corporations Capture Generative Energy | Benjamin Studebaker #podcast #interview

519 views · 6mo ago · 3:00

From the full dialogue: What Are We Accelerating Towards, with theorists @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel , Michel Bauwens, Benjamin Studebaker and Tim Adalin.

What Are We Accelerating Towards? | Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin

3.1K views · 6mo ago · 1:52:52

On geopolitical shifts, civilisational cycles, and the potential for new social coordination mechanisms in an increasingly frenetic world. (RE-UPLOAD WITH AUDIO / FREEZE FIX) This dialogue welcomes the return of political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher O.G. Rose, and Commons / Civilisation theorist Michel Bauwens in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

Topics: US, China, Geopolitical Shifts and Military Spending · The 5,000-Year Transition: Modes of Exchange · Social Coordination Mechanisms and Global Pluralism · Exploring Accelerationism: Positive vs. Negative Forms · The Dilemma of Nation States vs. Globalization · The Crisis of European Identity and Sovereignty

Anthro-Complexity, Substrate, and Communication | Dave Snowden in dialogue with Tim Adalin

2.6K views · 7mo ago · 2:01:50

Guest: Tim Adalin

What is Anthro-complexity? What makes humans different? How can we respond with wisdom, at scale, to our entanglements? Welcoming polymathic thinker and renowned complexity practitioner Dave Snowden, in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

Topics: What is anthro-complexity? · Entanglement, not relationship? · Orientation and the ancient debate that still structures how we think · Why workshops don't work (and what does) · You can't simplify a falcon into a pigeon (and have it still be a falcon) · Three dangers: appropriation, distraction, destruction