Indigenous Knowledge and Radical Psychotechnologies - A Conversation with Tyson Yunkaporta

Tyson Yunkaporta is an author, academic, educator, Indigenous
thinker, maker, arts critic, researcher and poet. He is a member
of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland and has ties in the
south. His born-country is Melbourne and adoptive and
community/cultural ties all over, from Western NSW to Perth.
Tyson carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a
senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in
Melbourne.


Tyson is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can
Save the World (2021) a remarkable book about everything from
echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and
spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.


In the book, Tyson looks at global systems from an Indigenous
perspective and asks how contemporary life diverges from the
pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do
things differently?


Tyson is also an advisor to the Consilience Project, founded by
Daniel Schmachtenberger and Zak Stein.


Social Links


LinkedIn: @tyson-yunkaporta