Seminar: Digital Libido

with Alexander Bard

Global growth sets new records, poverty and illiteracy rates fall, technological innovation creates amazing opportunities. Still we are deeply discontent, there is something fundamentally wrong with contemporary society. Democracies are paralysed and produce authoritarian bullies as leaders, a growing underclass sedates itself with fast carbs and moronic entertainment. Society is infantilised and political discourse implodes.

Digital Libido: Sex, power and violence in the network society is a deep and brutal analysis of humanity s rapidly increasing sense of loss and confusion in the network society. Departing from Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and his prophetic masterpiece Civilisation and its Discontents, philosophers and futurologists Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist create a tour de force while digging deep into the human condition in the internet age. Exposing every aspect of the complex relationship between Man and technology, Bard & Söderqvist clarify our current and future existential dilemmas.
Welcome to the attentionalist chaos, where order gains such a massive value that people are willing to pay any price to obtain it. So what is happening? And why? Digital Libido: Sex, power and violence in the network society answers the questions you were too scared to even ask.

5 Seminars

Intro: Digital Libido
The Phallus
Technology
Spirituality

Power

Alexander Bard has been a household name in Sweden since the 1990s. As part of the distinctive pop groups Army of Lovers and BWO, he is known for his ability to attract attention. With a great appetite for political, intellectual and social debate, Alexander has a broad range of talents – from lecturer and author to debater and political activist. As a speaker he owns the stage, tackling questions about digitalisation and the effects it has on society.

You will want your pen and notebook ready as you witness the most energetic cyber philosopher on the planet. Charismatic and fast-paced, Alexander engages and challenges his audience.