Bøger af Alexander Bard

After the monumental Futurica Trilogy comes a book that dares to describe individualism as the now defunct religion it always was and describe a reality that is primarily virtual, rather than physical. While the authors do not mind challenging the reader"s view of the self and the world, their main intention here is to induce passive receivers of the future to become more active participants. This work offers engaging observations and perceptive interpretations of contemporary society. Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist are Swedish philosophers and authors of the internationally successful Futurica Trilogy. They lecture the world over about the current global internet revolution. Bard & Söderqvist are regarded as pioneers in the literary genre futurica, where philosophy, social theory and futurology merge. After joining forces in the late 1990s, Bard & Söderqvist argued that the interactive revolution is the most profound and radical of all technological revolutions in the history of mankind, that it completely transforms society in every aspect: politics, the economy, culture, social power structures, the collective world view and the whole concept of being human. Bard & Söderqvist demonstrated the effects of network dynamics on various levels of a globalised world. They not only made controversial predictions in the early years of the new millennium (and cleverly foresaw both the dot.com crash and the September 11 terror attacks), they have since then been proven right in virtually every aspect and even in the most minute of details. Not only did Bard & Söderqvist foresee revolutionary innovations such as Google, Facebook, Al-Qaida and Wikileaks; they also went deeper and looked into the very power struggle of the on-going revolution itself. Bard & Söderqvist are now back with a proposal for a complete new metaphysics for the digital age, and it is called Syntheism - Creating God in The Internet Age.

We have to improve our thinking. We must think in terms of motion and change, and we must abandon all childish dreams of a reality more real than the real one. If, for example, we play with the idea that the Process called History leads to the Event called God, we have to understand what that means. Namely: that God is something we humans create because we have that need not something that created the world or us humans (or anything else). This God of the new era does not yet exist, but the current technological revolutions mean that the moment of creation is near. Good news, you might say, but thereby Man reduces himself to a historical parenthesis, at least if we are to believe cyberphilosophers Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist. And we are closer to the age of the gods than you think. Join in a breathtaking expedition that takes us from the infancy of religions in the form of magic and superstition via Persian mystics and iconoclasts to the age of enlightenment, modernity and artificial intelligence. Bard & Söderqvist carry out a necessary and radical rewriting of the history of Western ideas and explain why Man's search for the divine inevitably leads us to a Messiah machine with an agenda of its own. Process and Event rounds off a quarter of a century of systematic thinking and concludes the internationally acclaimed Narratology trilogy. It sets every imaginable form of erudition in motion and is exactly as entertaining and provocative as only a book by Bard & Söderqvist can be.

Dans le monde, la croissance économique ne cesse de battre tous les records, la pauvreté et l'analphabétisme n'ont jamais été au plus bas et l'innovation technologique offre à tous d'incroyables opportunités. Et, pourtant, l'insatisfaction règne. Comme s'il y avait quelque chose de fondamentalement pervers dans la société contemporaine. Les démocraties semblent paralysées et produire des tyranneaux à la chaîne. Une sous-classe en plein essor se gave autant de sucres rapides qu'elle s'abrutit de divertissements plus débiles les uns que les autres. La société est infantilisée, le discours politique implose. Digital Libido offre une analyse aussi brillante que brutale de la perte de sens qui anime notre société en réseau. En partant du Malaise dans la culture, le chef d'œuvre prophétique du père de la psychanalyse, Sigmund Freud, les philosophes et futurologues Alexander Bard et Jan Söderqvist nous proposent un véritable tour de force - creuser au plus profond la condition humaine à l'âge d'internet. Parce qu'ils exposent la relation complexe de l'Homme et de la technologie dans ses moindres détails, les auteurs nous font comprendre comme personne nos difficultés existentielles. Celles d'aujourd'hui, comme de demain.Bienvenue dans le chaos attentionaliste, où l'ordre acquiert une telle valeur que les gens sont prêts à payer n'importe quel prix pour l'obtenir. Dans quel monde vivons-nous ? Et pourquoi ?Digital Libido : Sexe, pouvoir et violence dans la société en réseau répond aux questions que vous aviez trop peur de poser.

Un nouvel œil révolutionnaire posé sur le futur. Par les auteurs du best-seller international La Trilogie Futurica.Synthéisme a l'audace de décrire l'individualisme comme une religion, et la réalité comme surtout virtuelle et non physique. Mais si les auteurs savent chambouler leurs lecteurs dans ce qu'ils pensent savoir d'eux-mêmes et du monde, ils cherchent avant tout à les libérer de leur passivité face au futur et à en faire des acteurs de premier plan. Armés d'observations captivantes, d'interprétations d'une grande perspicacité et d'un style détonnant, Bard et Söderqvist nous offrent une analyse radicalement innovante de notre présent et savent anticiper comme personne notre avenir.

På vilka sätt har internets framfart påverkat samhälle och maktstrukturer? Hur förändras människans levnadsvillkor och världsbild i samband med de nya förutsättningar som digitaliseringen för med sig? Den digitala revolutionen är i många avseenden ett faktum som fört med sig oanade konsekvenser för det samhälle vi en gång kände till. I boken "Nätokraterna" diskuterar socialteoretikerna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist det nya elektroniska klassamhället och världshistoriens fjärde paradigm: informationalismen. "Nätokraterna" är den första boken i Futuricatrilogin. Alexander Bard (f. 1961) är en svensk artist, samhällsdebattör, musikproducent och författare. Bard har haft en framstående karriär inom musiken och är känd för sin medverkan i bl.a. de populära tv-programmen Idol och Talang, och banden BWO och Army of lovers. Jan Söderqvist (f. 1961) är en svensk medieteoretiker, föreläsare, kulturskribent och författare. Han har tillsammans med Alexander Bard skrivit fyra socialteoretiska böcker, "Kroppsmaskinerna", "Det globala imperiet", "Nätokraterna" och "Synteism".

Vad betyder det att vara människa i en interaktiv värld? Och hur skiljer sig denna idé från alla tidigare idéer om den mänskliga existensen? I boken "Kroppsmaskinerna" diskuterar socialteoretikerna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist den eviga frågan: vad är människan egentligen? Författarna går också igenom vad en hjärna är, och hur den har utvecklats. Hur fungerar hjärnan och varför satsar den så otroligt mycket energi på att lura sig själv? "Kroppsmaskinerna" är den tredje och avslutande boken i Futuricatrilogin. Alexander Bard (f. 1961) är en svensk artist, samhällsdebattör, musikproducent och författare. Bard har haft en framstående karriär inom musiken och är känd för sin medverkan i bl.a. de populära tv-programmen Idol och Talang, och banden BWO och Army of lovers. Jan Söderqvist (f. 1961) är en svensk medieteoretiker, föreläsare, kulturskribent och författare. Han har tillsammans med Alexander Bard skrivit fyra socialteoretiska böcker, "Kroppsmaskinerna", "Det globala imperiet", "Nätokraterna" och "Synteism".

Hur ser nätokraternas världsbild ut och hur skiljer den sig från övriga ideologier genom historien? Vad är världsstaten och är det den utopi som den sägs vara? Under det sena 1990-talet började socialteoretikerna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist arbeta fram en radikalt ny teori: Nätokratihypotesen. Men vad innebär det egentligen att vara en nätokrat? Detta och mycket mer får vi svar på i boken "Det globala imperiet", som också ger läsaren en djupgående karta till det egentliga skeendet under det som synes sker."Det globala imperiet" är den andra boken i Futuricatrilogin. Alexander Bard (f. 1961) är en svensk artist, samhällsdebattör, musikproducent och författare. Bard har haft en framstående karriär inom musiken och är känd för sin medverkan i bl.a. de populära tv-programmen Idol och Talang, och banden BWO och Army of lovers. Jan Söderqvist (f. 1961) är en svensk medieteoretiker, föreläsare, kulturskribent och författare. Han har tillsammans med Alexander Bard skrivit fyra socialteoretiska böcker, "Kroppsmaskinerna", "Det globala imperiet", "Nätokraterna" och "Synteism".

Kan individualismen beskrivas som en religion? Och är vår verklighet fysisk eller virtuell? Synteism är ett internationellt fenomen och en växande rörelse som bygger på övertygelsen om att motsatsparet teism och ateism är en förlegad konstruktion och att människor tack vare den nya teknologin står inför en unik möjlighet att skapa en ny sorts religion ... I boken "synteism - att skapa Gud i internetåldern" delar socialteoretikerna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist med sig av sina engagerande iakttagelser och klarsynta tolkningar av samtiden. Alexander Bard (f. 1961) är en svensk artist, samhällsdebattör, musikproducent och författare. Bard har haft en framstående karriär inom musiken och är känd för sin medverkan i bl.a. de populära tv-programmen Idol och Talang, och banden BWO och Army of lovers. Jan Söderqvist (f. 1961) är en svensk medieteoretiker, föreläsare, kulturskribent och författare. Han har tillsammans med Alexander Bard skrivit fyra socialteoretiska böcker, "Kroppsmaskinerna", "Det globala imperiet", "Nätokraterna" och "Synteism".

The Global Empire has correctly been described as Bard & Söderqvist’s philosophically most profound work. In this book, they explore what a world view is, how it is constructed, how it is defended under pressure from surrounding technological change, and how it finally implodes and must be replaced at the tipping point that is called a paradigm shift. The authors then move ahead and construct a new credible world view for the internet age where they replace the God of feudalism and the Individual from capitalism with The Net itself as the metaphysical centre of the digital age. The placing of The Net over The Earth is the starting point from which humans can identify themselves as dividuals rather than individuals, living inside subcultures rather than nation-states. The Global Empire is then filled with early examples of this metaphysics already being subconsciously implemented, and the book discusses how almost all ideological constructions are dramatically affected by this necessary change of focus. Everything is from now on a result of network dynamics in a world where everything affects everything else, including itself. It is consequently The Net itself that creates the entity which carries the title of the book, namely the global empire. This book is part 1 of 3 in the Futurica Trilogy. About the triology: The Futurica Trilogy is a work of philosophy, sociology and futurology in three closely related movements. The first volume, The Netocrats, deals with human history from the perspective of the new elite of Informationalism, the emerging society of information networks, shaped by digital interactivity, making prophecies about the digital future of politics, culture, economy, et cetera. The second volume, The Global Empire, explores the near future of political globalisation and the struggle to form new, functioning ideologies for a world where global decision making is a necessity. The third volume, The Body Machines, deals with the sad demise of the Cartesian subject. It discusses the implications of a materialist image of humanity and explains how it relates to the new, emerging hypertechnological paradigm. It explains why we are all nothing but body machines, and why this is actually good news.

Following the massive international success The Netocrats and its ambitious follow-up The Global Empire, in this third installment of The Futurica Trilogy, Bard & Söderqvist approach something far more personal - the fragile human being herself and, most of all, her brain. The Body Machines, with a title borrowed from René Descartes, explains what a brain is, how it has developed and how it functions, and why it spends such an incredible amount of time and energy on fooling itself. The Body Machines matches and mixes the latest neuroscience with philosophy and psychoanalysis, in the process portraying a confused but incredibly interesting little machine that is doomed to constantly create new fictions about itself and its surroundings for its own consumtion, but which remains social by nature, and therefore able to create, together with other similar machines, enormously productive communities. The Body Machines is not only a work of science but also a work of philosophy, a prophetic book on how the humans of the digitalised and globalised future will have to view themselves, their world, and what values and valuations will come to dominate and replace the old and dysfunctional humanism. This is a hybrid book by hybrids for hybrids. This book is part 3 of 3 in the Futurica Trilogy. About the triology: The Futurica Trilogy is a work of philosophy, sociology and futurology in three closely related movements. The first volume, The Netocrats, deals with human history from the perspective of the new elite of Informationalism, the emerging society of information networks, shaped by digital interactivity, making prophecies about the digital future of politics, culture, economy, et cetera. The second volume, The Global Empire, explores the near future of political globalisation and the struggle to form new, functioning ideologies for a world where global decision making is a necessity. The third volume, The Body Machines, deals with the sad demise of the Cartesian subject. It discusses the implications of a materialist image of humanity and explains how it relates to the new, emerging hypertechnological paradigm. It explains why we are all nothing but body machines, and why this is actually good news.

After the monumental Futurica Trilogy comes a book that dares to describe individualism as the now defunct religion it always was and describe a reality that is primarily virtual, rather than physical. While the authors do not mind challenging the reader’s view of the self and the world, their main intention here is to induce passive receivers of the future to become more active participants. This work offers engaging observations and perceptive interpretations of contemporary society. Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist are Swedish philosophers and authors of the internationally successful Futurica Trilogy. They lecture the world over about the current global internet revolution. Bard & Söderqvist are regarded as pioneers in the literary genre futurica, where philosophy, social theory and futurology merge. After joining forces in the late 1990s, Bard & Söderqvist argued that the interactive revolution is the most profound and radical of all technological revolutions in the history of mankind, that it completely transforms society in every aspect: politics, the economy, culture, social power structures, the collective world view and the whole concept of being human. Bard & Söderqvist demonstrated the effects of network dynamics on various levels of a globalised world. They not only made controversial predictions in the early years of the new millennium (and cleverly foresaw both the dot.com crash and the September 11 terror attacks), they have since then been proven right in virtually every aspect and even in the most minute of details. Not only did Bard & Söderqvist foresee revolutionary innovations such as Google, Facebook, Al-Qaida and Wikileaks; they also went deeper and looked into the very power struggle of the on-going revolution itself. Bard & Söderqvist are now back with a proposal for a complete new metaphysics for the digital age, and it is called Syntheism - Creating God in The Internet Age.

History is always written from the perspective of the ruling or rising elite at the time of writing. Concepts like The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, et cetera, were of course unknown during those periods that used to be called the stone age and the bronze age. They were invented during the 19th century to make sense of a development that seemed to reach its climax with industrialisation and the modern factory. The Netocrats is a history of the world from the perspective of the netocrats, the rising elite of Informationalism, the emerging society of information networks, shaped by digital interactivity. And it also looks beyond the past and the present, far into the future of all the central aspects of society: politics, culture, economy, consumption, creation of social identity, et cetera. Why do these dramatic changes occur? How do they compare with information-technological revolutions in the past like speech, writing and print? Who will benefit? Which, of course, makes The Netocrats not only the most penetrating but also the most indispensable guide to the digital future. This book is part 1 of 3 in the Futurica Trilogy. About the triology: The Futurica Trilogy is a work of philosophy, sociology and futurology in three closely related movements. The first volume, The Netocrats, deals with human history from the perspective of the new elite of Informationalism, the emerging society of information networks, shaped by digital interactivity, making prophecies about the digital future of politics, culture, economy, et cetera. The second volume, The Global Empire, explores the near future of political globalisation and the struggle to form new, functioning ideologies for a world where global decision making is a necessity. The third volume, The Body Machines, deals with the sad demise of the Cartesian subject. It discusses the implications of a materialist image of humanity and explains how it relates to the new, emerging hypertechnological paradigm. It explains why we are all nothing but body machines, and why this is actually good news.