E148| Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI w/ 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’. This continues threads from the conversation ‘Where are we in history?’ in which the notions of paradigmatics, membranics, and archetypology framed how we might approach an understanding of the social and technological changes taking place today.
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Keywords
history, paradigms, power, digital age, attentionalism, chronomics, dystopia, protopia, algorithms, attention Imaginary Power, Symbolic Power, Sensocracy, AI Limitations, Time and Space, Populism, Governance, Philosophy, Transformation, Future Politics Burning Man, Communism, Spirituality, AI, Art, Mob, Emergentism, Consciousness, Participatory Culture, Religion
Chapters
00:00 Navigating Historical Paradigms
06:13 Understanding Power in the Digital Age
20:09 Chronomics: The New Paradigm of Time
26:18 Dystopian vs. Protopian Perspectives
40:38 The Shift from Capital to Attention
46:28 Imaginary Power and Its Contexts
51:37 The Triad of Power: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real
56:21 Sensocracy and the Future of Governance
60:01 Philosophical Humility and the Nature of Transformation
62:54 The Return to Space and Its Implications
64:06 The Tyranny of the Past and AI's Limitations
68:17 The Chaos of Future Politics
72:01 The Relationship Between Time, Space, and AI
75:28 Navigating Power Dynamics in a Changing World
81:32 Populism, Mobs, and the Future of Collective Action
89:57 Exploring Communism Through Burning Man
92:27 Rethinking Communism and Religion
95:36 The Role of AI in Spirituality and Culture
100:55 Understanding the Mob and the Role of Art
103:35 The Transformative Power of Art
106:24 The Future of AI and Mathematics
120:51 Emergentism and the Nature of Consciousness
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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
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