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| Sweeny vs Bard #66 w. Tim Pickerill - Zufism and The Dark Age | 08 Mar 2025 | 01:25:18 | |
Alexander Bard unveils Zuvism—blending Zen, Sufism, and Zoroastrianism from the Silk Road. A deep chat with Andrew Sweeny and Tim Pickerill. Esoteric truths, sex, violence—decentralized spirituality for nomads. The course starts April 2, 2025, at Parallax: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/zufism-alexander-bard #Zuvism #Philosophy #Spirituality #SilkRoad #AlexanderBard #Parallax #EsotericWisdom #SweenyVsBard #TimPickerill #ZenSufism | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard #58 with Bonnitta Roy and Alexander Elung - Transcendental Emergentism part 2 | 04 Dec 2023 | 01:38:20 | |
The second part in a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event. With Special Guest Alexander Elung Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School: https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/,; https://a.co/d/4ZLYDnuLinks: Alexander Bard's Books: Process and Event, (2023)The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society (2017)" | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard S03E09: The Metaphysics of The Digital Age with Alexander Elung | 10 Mar 2021 | 01:30:40 | |
Links: Alexander Bard's Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 7: The Wisdom and The madness of Crowds - with Thomas Hamelryck | 07 Feb 2021 | 01:58:43 | |
The scapegoat mob and the Exodus, Tantra and Zoroastrianism, Axial Age vs Bronze age, Egyptian vs Persian culture, The two river systems, Hegel, Nietzsche, and so much more. Two hours of dynamite. Links/donations: Alexander Bard's Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 8: Marshall Mcluhan Symposium: with Clinton Ignatov | 15 Jan 2021 | 02:03:09 | |
Clinton Ignatov is a Mcluhan scholar and has a labyrinthine mind like an eccentric Renaissance alchemist. He has a great YouTube channel called ‘Concerned Netizen’ where he goes into the weeds of this great Canadian scholar who discovered ‘The global village’ and then later renamed it ‘The global theater’. Alexander Bard’s philosophy is also aimed at, among other things, trying to understand Mcluhanism for the internet age, and contains the same challenging prophetic urgency, which is never moralistic. Enjoy this sparking conversation and deep dive! Links: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 6: Sexual Apocalypse and The Dark Renaissance: With Cadell Last and Raven Connolly | 05 Dec 2020 | 01:57:37 | |
Links: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 5: Sex, Ritual, and Religion - with Thomas Hamelryck | 28 Nov 2020 | 02:08:34 | |
A heated and passionate discussion about our usual topics: Process and Event in relation to sex and religion. Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism - popular sutric religion and behind the ‘barred absolute’. The place of sex and violence in ritual. And so much more. The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 4: The return of Religion, with Paul LLoyd Robson of Maniphesto | 17 Nov 2020 | 01:19:39 | |
Paul LLoyd Robson is the initiator of the European Men’s movement and head of Maniphesto. He’s also an Orthodox Christian, and here he sits down with a Vajrayana Buddhist and a Zoroastrian. Besides an interest in Men’s group, one thing that the three of us have in common is that we have all converted to a religion. This is a discussion of the men’s movement and an apology for traditional religion. Links: The Futurica Trilogy, with Jan Söderqvist (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 3: Sexual Apocalypse - Stealing Queer Back From Woke: With Cadell Last and Raven Connolly | 12 Nov 2020 | 02:01:03 | |
Our first live Sweeny vs Bard on Parallax and the most fun we have had yet! Links: Books by Alexander Bard The Futurica Trilogy, with Jan Söderqvist (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 2: Process, Event, and Negation: With Cadell Last | 26 Oct 2020 | 01:38:18 | |
Our first conversation with Cadell Last, an extraordinary new voice on the scene whose beard at least competes with Alexander’s, and who has written a great new book called Sex, God and Masculinity. We talked about a lot of things including Freudian psychoanalysis and socio-analysis, a defense of Freud and Hegel, the phallus and the fake phallus, exodology, and many themes familiar to this podcast. We talked about Alexander’s proposed Pro-topia, a world beyond the barred absolute and of creativity undreamed of. But also of the ‘rites of passage’ that the society will have to endure before we get there. Bio: Cadell Last is an anthropologist, philosopher and therapist focused on biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation and future speculations. He earned his PhD in interdisciplinary and complexity studies at the Evolution, Cognition and Complexity group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also the author of over a dozen academic publications and two books: Global Brain Singularity and Sex, Masculinity, God; as well as over a dozen academic publications. You can find more about his work at cadelllast.com. DONATE ON PAYPAL The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 1: Sex, Forgiveness, and Karma: With Thomas Hamelryck | 03 Sep 2020 | 01:56:51 | |
A new season of Sweeny vs Bard with our now regular guest Thomas Hamelryck. In this discussion Alexander brings up the subject of forgiveness and ties this to the heroic principle and capitalist innovation with its ‘fail harder and try again’. We look at vulgar notions of karma within pagan cultures and more sophisticated notions in Buddhism and how forgiveness helps us to go beyond karma and the ‘eternal return of the same’. We talk about our usual suspects: Girard, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Hegel (and for me Trungpa). And we talk about the need for sex education, alchemy, and the barred absolute in religion. And we also discover what Alexander Bard eats for breakfast (Hegel of course). Enjoy.
The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 20: The Exodus vs The Lynch Mob: With Thomas Hamelryck | 14 Aug 2020 | 01:30:57 | |
The final episode in Season 2 of Sweeny vs Bard with our now regular guest Thomas Hamelryck. We go further in the discussion of the anoject, the scapegoat, and the martyr with reference to our usual suspects: Girard, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Hegel, Spinoza, Kant, Longchenpa and others. Alexander introduces more concepts from his forthcoming book ‘Process and Event’ including the hyperject and paradigmatic embryonism. If you want to know what the hell that is have a listen listen:
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| Sweeny vs Bard #57 with Bonnitta Roy - Transcendental Emergentism | 19 Oct 2023 | 01:30:55 | |
The beginning of a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event. Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School: https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/,; https://a.co/d/4ZLYDnuLinks: Alexander Bard's Books: Process and Event, (2023)The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society (2017) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 19: The Anoject Part 2: With Thomas Hamelryck | 08 Aug 2020 | 01:11:48 | |
Our latest discussion with Thomas Hamelryck, in which Alexander introduces his concept: The Anoject - a neologism he invented which means, roughly speaking, the anonymous accuser. We expand on this subject but also speak about the messiah, the martyr and the saint,, fields of potential beyond spacetime, quantum organics, the 3 kayas of buddhism, the death of celebrity culture, higher and lover gods, heresy, crazy wisdom, and Antagony—among other thing.
The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 18: The Anoject Part 1: With Thomas Hamelryck | 30 Jul 2020 | 01:05:54 | |
Our latest discussion with Thomas Hamelryck, in which Alexander introduces his concept: The Anoject - a neologism he invented which means, roughly speaking, the anonymous accuser. More discussion on the nature of tyranny and scapegoats, with reference to favorite philosophers Girard, Heidegger, Nietzsche and others. Thomas Hamelryck is a scientist who uses AI to solve problems in bioinformatics and molecular biology. For philosophical and religious questions, he turns to the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, the mimetic theory and Christian theology of Rene Girard, the Dionysian philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and the practices of Sutric and Tantric Buddhism. DONATE ON PAYPAL The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 17: Logos, Mythos, and Pathos with John Vervaeke | 05 Jul 2020 | 01:29:13 | |
A long awaited conversation between my favorite interlocutors, and two philosophical and visionary geniuses of our time—who, as I mention in the beginning—are opposite character types. Nevertheless, both men converge on certain views. Alexander is an aggressive provocateur with an amazing palate of ideas (the Camille Paglia of Sweden), and John is outrageously humble Canadian professor with an equally ambitious project. Alexander lays out his religious history of the silk route triad, talks about Zoroastrianism, Heraclates, and the monist world view. John speaks about the monism of Plotinus and defends neo-platonism. We speak about the meaning of pathos, mythos, and logos—and the pathic nature of art. And so much much more. John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online YouTube Series ‘Awakening from The Meaning Crisis’, which is a rich feast of cognitive science, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas. What makes Vervaeke special in my opinion is the breadth of his work, but his courage descend the ivory tower and talk to people ‘on the street’—and to exemplify his ideas. His hero is Socrates, and he embodies the living dialogue and courage that Socrates represents. DONATE ON PAYPAL The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Awakening from The Meaning Crisis
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| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 16: Steven Bannon and The Traditionalists: With Benjamin R Teitelbaum | 19 Jun 2020 | 01:49:08 | |
How did an obscure esoteric school begun by the French writer and sufi René Guénon and his fascist disciple Julius Evola at the beginning of the 20th begin to influence geopolitics, and especially the works of Steve Bannon, Alexander Dugin, and Olavo de Carvalho? We discuss this with Benjamin R Teitelbaum, author of a great new page turner called “War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers.” And we go into depth, especially about Steven Bannon and the alt right who Benjamin has interviewed a lot, and this complex figure especially with reference to his traditionalism, his fatalistic view of the Kali Yuga, and what the neo traditionalists are up to precisely. An important and misunderstood topic.
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| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 15: Tantra vs Sutra Part 2. With Thomas Hamelryck | 24 May 2020 | 00:53:11 | |
Here we include Thomas Hamelryck, scientist and machine learning expert, and a practitioner of Buddhist Tantra. Thomas is part of a discussion group called the Intellectual deep web. How do we understand Tantra in a western context and how does tantra differ from Sutra. Books by Alexander Bard The Futurica Trilogy, with Jan Söderqvist (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age with Jan Söderqvist (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society, with Jan Söderqvist (2018) Intro music: Andrew Sweeny: Beautiful Machines Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon Sponsorships: off for this episode | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 14: Tantra vs Sutra Part 1. With Thomas Hamelryck | 22 May 2020 | 01:00:06 | |
Here we include Thomas Hamelryck, scientist and machine learning expert, and a practitioner of Buddhist Tantra. Thomas is part of a discussion group called the Intellectual deep web. How do we understand Tantra in a western context and how does tantra differ from Sutra. NEW PODCAST VERSION: https://anchor.fm/andrew-sweeny Support this channel and my projects by subscribing or helping on Patreon: Books by Alexander Bard The Futurica Trilogy, with Jan Söderqvist (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age with Jan Söderqvist (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society, with Jan Söderqvist (2018) Intro music: Andrew Sweeny: Beautiful Machines Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 13: Mimesis, Ecstasy and Trauma | 18 Apr 2020 | 01:23:26 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation: DONATE ON PAYPAL Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 12: Jordan Peterson, the trickster, and the passive-aggressive lynch mob | 26 Mar 2020 | 00:49:36 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation: DONATE ON PAYPAL Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon Sponsorships: off for this episode | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 11: Coronavirus, The Event, and The Real | 21 Mar 2020 | 01:00:52 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation: Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 10: Eventology and the History of Religion | 08 Mar 2020 | 00:49:43 | |
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| Sweeny vs Bard #56 - Back in Black | 05 Sep 2023 | 01:07:04 | |
After a bit of a hiatus, Sweeny vs Bard are back to talk about core Bardism, Alexander’s new book Process and Event, Zoraster, Marx, Time, Space, and God. Please enjoy this feast. | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 9: A critique of John Vervaeke's 'Religion that is No Religion' | 01 Feb 2020 | 01:12:31 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: DONATE ON PAYPAL Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 8: Nietzsche, Marx, Freud and The Tower of God | 19 Jan 2020 | 00:34:09 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud DONATE ON PAYPAL Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 7: Sex, Religion, and The Meaning Crisis | 05 Jan 2020 | 00:34:15 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: John Vervaeke's and The Meaning Crisis; Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud; Aristotle and Causality; The Will to Transcendence ; The Silk Route; The 4 stages of life; The 3 Utopias; The death of God (Nietzsche) and the Death of the Individual (Foucault); A savage critique of Christianity; Greta Gunberg Pedophelia; Oversexed American Culture DONATE ON PAYPAL Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 6: Nomadology and Transcendence | 17 Dec 2019 | 00:49:32 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: John Vervaeke;; Joker; 4 Human drives; Transrationalism; Nomadology; Ecotopianism; Cosmopolitanism; Experimentalism; Communism Emergence; The trickster DONATE ON PAYPAL Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 5: Joker and American Individualism | 02 Dec 2019 | 00:33:41 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: The film Joker American; Individualism; Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism; The need for religion; Monism; Patriarchy and Matriarchy; Imploitation vs Exploitation; The Garden of Babel; The need for a Heroic principle Ecotopia DONATE ON PAYPAL Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 4: Emergence and The Messiah | 04 Nov 2019 | 00:41:37 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: When little boys dream about being Gods; A defense of Utopianism; Masculine Energy; Imploitation vs Exploitation; The Cosmopole; Attentionalism Moses and Aaron; Engineering and the Tower of Babel; Fear of Sexuality; Jung and Freud; Emergence and Eventology; And so much more …
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| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 3: Jordan Peterson the Zoroastrian vs John Vervaeke The Buddhist | 23 Oct 2019 | 00:48:19 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: Why Jordan Peterson is a Zoroastrian without knowing it; John Vervaeke’s Buddhism; Marx vs Rousseau; The scapegoat, The false phallus and the real phallus; The importance of young men; Anglo Saxon discourse; The messiah The overman and the proletariat; The need for heroic discourse Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 2: : Europe, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism | 18 Sep 2019 | 00:29:51 | |
A new season of Sweeny vs Bard! Get ready to have your mind blown! Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: Sufism Europe; Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism; Empires; Talking to the alt right; tantric outcasts DONATE Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Season 2 Ep. 1: The Digital Messiah | 26 Aug 2019 | 01:05:43 | |
A new season of Sweeny vs Bard! Get ready to have your mind blown! Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: Silk Route: the golden age of spirituality; The will to Intelligence; Machine, biological and symbiotic intelligence; The messianic machine; How to defeat the culture war; Blockchain and brutal honesty; Membrains; Deep History; People being naked togeather ... and so much more DONATE Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 16: Ethics and Freedom From God | 26 Jun 2019 | 01:13:41 | |
Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: Dualism vs Monism, Hyperspace and Hypertime, Entropy and Sentropy , The infinite demand, Abjectification and the Fake Phallus, Priests and Machines, Real Imaginary and Symbolic power Politics, Irony Transparency, 3 kinds of Nihilism and Dead Religion, Zoroastrian Ethics, Freedom From God ... and more!
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| Sweeny vs Bard S04E01: An MMA Lecture: An Odyssey towards digital Shamanism. | 24 Oct 2021 | 01:30:42 | |
A new season of Sweeny vs Bard begins with a passionate lecture at the Maniphesto Media Academia by the Bardster about media, men and women, and so many other things. To sign up for the Maniphesto Media Academy: https://maniphestocore.com/maniphesto-media-academy/ The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 15: Environmentalism vs Ecotopia | 26 Jun 2019 | 01:15:30 | |
We begin this conversation talking about how the pitfalls of environmentalism and the need for an ecotopia. Then the conversation goes off into quantum space, with an exploration of physics, zoroastrianism, buddhism and tribal mapping. Watch till the end to get the 'homework'.
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| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 14: Peterson/Zizek and The Extinction Rebellion | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:50:41 | |
In this conversation we look at the Zizkek Peterson debate, castigate the Extinction rebellion, discuss monism and dualism and so much more. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 13: Communism? | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:57:09 | |
Part of what we are up to, says Alexander Bard, is to retake words that can no longer be spoken. First we retake God, then we retake Religion, and then .... communism? In the eve of the upcoming debate between Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson Bard (Capitalism vs Marxism) Bard explains to me why a utopian vision is necessary for the future age which he thinks will have to communistic or perish. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 12: Tantra and the Third Testament | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:22:38 | |
In this final episode of the Tantra series, Bard talks about the need for a new theology or grand narrative in the face of the internet Tsunami. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 11: Tantra, Fake Messiahs, and The Moon landing | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:23:14 | |
Some notes on topics covered: a facebook supernova, credibility vs marketing, a culture of mutual admiration, the beauty of asymmetry, dialectics of theism and non-theism, ‘God is the skulls of all the dead shamans’, science the story you tell in the morning, mythology n the evening, 'never to strive for perfection,' the terrible ideas of infinity, the exodus, the ultimate father and the ultimate mother, the moon landing, building pyramids, ’empty perfected symbols of death’, fake messiahs and death worship, boy and girl pharos, individualism, etc. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 10: Tantra, Crazy Wisdom, and The Need for Mercy | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:28:16 | |
This is a wide ranging discussion about the need for mercy and eccentricity in the age of social media witch hunts. We talk about how ugly perfection is in politics, art, and all aspects of life—how asymmetry, human failure, and wildness are necessary in the path towards human wisdom. We don't need role models, according to Bard, but people who challenge us. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 9 Tantra, Sneaky F*ers, and Social Justice Warriors | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:10:15 | |
This episode is a short but epic rant against the unattractiveness of social justice warriors and victimology by Alexander Bard and an plea for adultification and being 'awake' instead of woke. It is part 2 in our discussion of Tantra. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep.8: Tantra and Neo-Tantra | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:51:59 | |
This episode covers tantra which is a very elastic term from the east meaning—more or less— certain kinds spiritual practices that originated in India. We also discuss neo-tantra which was Osho's term for sexual/somatic exercises to liberate the sexually repressed, and we talk about why the Osho cult got so corrupt. Bard says that real Tantra is more about the 'adultification' of the world than instant gratification. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard: Ep.7: The Third Sex and the New Theology | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:17:31 | |
As a conclusion we return to our discussion on the necessity of the Shamanic caste, the third sex, and a new theology.
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| Sweeny vs Bard: Ep. 6: The need for a Grand Narrative | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:27:31 | |
This episode covers the abortion, borders and immigration, ethics based on actuality, and building building the tower of babel or the next Grand Narrative. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Strange Attractor Roundtable Ep 3: The Philosophy of Cool | 11 Jun 2021 | 01:58:33 | |
After listening to Alex Ebert’s fantastic presentation ‘Dead Cool’ at the Stoa we thought we would invite Alex, who like Alexander Bard, is a pop star turned philosopher for a discussion on ‘The Philosophy of Cool’. What is cool in the age of attentionalism? What is fake cool and what is real cool? How is cool related to Réne Girard’s theories of mimetic desire. Originally part of the Sweeny vs Bard podcast, we thought it exemplified a lively round table and should be part of the Strange Attractor series. After all ‘cool’ is a strange attractor and mysterious enough to merit a serious conversation. Alex Ebert is an erstwhile multiplatinum songwriter and Golden Globe-winning film composer now taking up philosophy in New Orleans. He is currently finishing his first book, Dead Cool, an analysis of sociodynamics and status anxiety in the age of Cool. Alexander Bard: Alexander Bard is a Swedish author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, philosopher and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist movement along with his co-author Jan Söderqvist. His books include “The Futurica Trilogy”, “Digital Libido” & “Syntheism”. Thomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Bioinformatics Centre at the University of Copenhagen Biocenter. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. He is also an enthusiast of Réne Girard, and denies all rumours that he was once the keyboard player for Depeche Mode. | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard: Ep. 5: Ecotopia | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:26:22 | |
This episode covers the need for a utopian vision, a digital exodus, retraction rather than revolution, digital monasteries and more. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard: Ep. 4: Jordan Peterson, Tribal Mapping, and the Men's Movement | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:24:15 | |
This episode covers some more thoughts on Jordan Peterson, ideas of primary and secondary archetypes within tribal mapping, and the importance of a men's movement. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard Ep. 3: Time/Space: Turning Plato and Einstein inside out | 26 Jun 2019 | 00:10:38 | |
Here Bard claims 'time is an illusion and not space' and that there are two kinds of time. Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||
| Sweeny vs Bard: Ep. 2 Jordan Peterson, The Tribe, and The Machine | 25 Jun 2019 | 00:16:47 | |
This talk includes both an appreciation and critique of Jordan Peterson, more on shamanism and the tribe—also the internet and singularity. The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: | |||