Seminar: Process and Event

with Alexander Bard

If you want to understand the main ideas that shape(d) the world, than this seminar might just the right thing for you.

We expect monumental changes in the unfolding internet-age, changing increasingly the cultural landscape with the advent of A.I., new class structures and new complexities.

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. Through this seminar you will initiate yourself into these new cultural challenges.

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 cyberphilosopher Alexander Bard. And we are closer to the age of the gods than you think.

Join in a breathtaking seminar 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 carries 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 It sets every imaginable form of erudition in motion and is exactly as entertaining and provocative as only a seminar by Bard can be.

6 weeks of interactive online-seminars

interview series with Alexander Bard

Duration 90 min each (~45 min prompted Seminar + ~45 min Q & A)

Zoom-Seminar Wednesdays 8pm CET

Part 1 : February 7th, 14th and 21th

7th: Process and Event
14th: Boy Pharaos and Pillar Saints
21th: Libido and Mortido

Part 2: April, 10th, 17th and 24th

10th: Man vs Machine
17th: Tribes and Empires
24th: Dark Narcissism

The Cyber Philosopher

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.