E59| Culture, Meaning and Design in Response to Crisis w/ Forrest Landry & John Vervaeke
Recorded in August 2021, this dialogue with Forrest Landry and John Vervaeke is a profound intellectual journey into the depths of the meaning crisis and existential risk, in the context of generative response.
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Read more about Forrest Landry, John Vervaeke, and access links to their works below. And listen to their previous Voicecraft dialogue here.
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01:40 – Origins, definitions, and the frame of choice
11:40 – Communication & commons
14:52 – Rivalry, anti-rivaly, non-rivalry
22:22 – Sustainability, evolution, consciousness
29:33 – Towards understanding the relationships between beauty and the commons
40:26 – Beauty and relations to discernment, attunement, trust and community
45:00 – Beauty, integrity, and wildness
51:00 – Beauty, care, and the making of future in the context of power and now
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Forrest Landry is a philosopher, writer, researcher, scientist, engineer, craftsman, and teacher focused on metaphysics and the thriving of all forms of life on this planet. He has particular insight into social architecture, choice & sensemaking, sustainability, complicated & complex systems, ethics & governance, existential risk, collective intelligence, and more.
Read more about Forrest and find a living repository of his work here.
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John Vervaeke PhD is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, metaphor, and wisdom. His abiding passion is to address the meaning crisis that besets western culture.
John’s remarkable and deeply educational YouTube series ‘Awakening From The Meaning Crisis’ can be found here.
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