Underground Philosophy: Agency and Imagination

Underground Philosophy: Agency and Imagination

What truly inspires the imagination? How are events in the world shaped? What is agency, and where does our agency lie today?

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Sometimes, without our knowing, stories can trap us. But myths and dreams can also open our sense of the possible, and awaken us to truths which shape our lives.

In this way, the imaginal appears to create new pathways for agency in the world.

Yet sometimes we can be lost in a waking dream. Cut off from real contact with the ground. Suffering from delusions of grandeur.

Or perhaps: our 'agency' may be moved by someone else, some system, or something beyond our conscious awareness.

And how agentic is our action then?

With a new host, on Thursday November 19th, Underground Philosophy returns..

Underground Philosophy is where spectators become participants. Experience live philosophy where audience members have the opportunity to ask questions, contribute to the field of meaning, and participate in conversations that venture through the ideas shaping our time.

How this works...

At Underground Philosophy, we sit before a small stage in the vault beneath Caz Reitop's. Members of the audience, guests, and members of Voicecraft Network will rotate places in dialogue on stage, facilitated by the host on the evening. When you book your ticket, you will be asked to select whether you're open to joining an open-minded, open hearted conversation.

The dialogue on stage is filmed, sometimes shared on the YT channel, but mostly kept private for those in the room.

RUNTIME

• 5.30 - Doors (Gather upstairs in the cocktail lounge)

• 6.00 - Start (take your seats at 5.50pm downstairs in the Vault)

• 8.00 - Event End

• 8.00 - Onwards: Optional speakeasy upstairs in the cocktail lounge. (There's a separate standup comedy event downstairs at 8.30.)

Guiding this evening of Underground Philosophy is Jurn Ma. He will be joined by guests and contributors to Voicecraft.

About Underground Philosophy

Through altered states of conversation, Underground Philosophy connects Melbourne’s thinkers, artists, and seekers. Here we resist the capture of algorithms and dissociating ideology. When we come to Underground Philosophy, we come to connect and experience thinking you can feel—philosophy with soul. In so doing, we contribute to a field of attention that seeks to support a deeper integrity to civic discourse.

Learn more about The Voicecraft Project, the Voicecraft Network, and watch the podcast and previous Underground Philosophy events at https://www.voicecraft.io

Photos from recent events at the venue, on the topics Totalitarianism, Truth to Power, Fear and Beauty, Archetypes and Egregores, Science and Magic, Democracy and Integration, Serpent, and Nietzsche.