E145| Membranes, Paradigms, Archetypes w/ Alexander Bard and Tim Adalin
Where are we in history? What remains 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? Welcoming the return of philosopher Alexander Bard in conversation with Tim Adalin about membranics, paradigmatics, and archetypology in the chaos between capitalism and attentionalism.
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Keywords
paradigms, internet age, AI, archetypology, membranics, community, attention economy, consciousness, society, philosophy
Chapters
0:10 Where are we in history?
2:07 What is 'paradigmatics'?
7:33 What is 'archetypology'? Plus definition of 'membranics'
15:20 How much is our sense of inside and outside (membranes) in flux today?
21:23 The 'sociont', tribal loyalty, and the central question for philosophy: mediating world-annihilating violence
25:33 What ideologies and material pressures shape our belonging today?
41:00 Shamanoids as go-betweens & the birth of religion
54:44 The dying paradigm: politics, finance & academia
1:03:27 What is attentionalism — and how does it differ from the "attention economy"?
1:14:50 Attention as sacred vs. attention as commodity
1:24:55 'Hacking synchronicity', corrupting attention, and power in attentionalism
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Alexander Bard, born in 1961, is a philosopher, writer, artist & record producer. Alexander was a fundamental force in creating the Swedish music export sensation — making his small native country the world’s third biggest exporter of music — and promoting the information technology revolution. He is also a front figure for the new export of radical Scandinavian thinkers and has repeatedly been named one of Sweden’s brightest minds.
Alexander has written three books on the internet revolution, collectively known as The Futurica Trilogy, together with media theorist Jan Söderqvist. Their first collaboration The Netocrats was originally released in Swedish in 2000, became available in English in 2003, and has since been translated to a further 16 languages with total worldwide sales exceeding 340,000 copies. The second book The Global Empire was originally released in Swedish in 2003, while the third instalment of the trilogy The Body Machines was originally published in Swedish in 2009. These latter two works were released in English in 2012, completing The Futurica Trilogy, in which the authors present their philosophical vision for a global and increasingly virtual society, as a consequence of the interactive revolution.
More recent works include Syntheism: Creating God In The Internet age; and Digital Libido: Sex, Power, and Violence in the Network Society, which form a completed trilogy with the 2023 release of Process and Event.
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Tim is the founder of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation. You can connect with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
On Substack @ https://substack.com/@timadalin
On Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/tim_adalin/
And on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-adalin/
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