Sweeny vs Bard #60 - with Roberto Palacio
Anxiety in the Digital Age
Recorded March 27th, 2024
Why are we so depressed in the digital age? A deep discussion about what Roberto Palacio calls the age of anxiety.
Roberto Palacio (1967), MPhil., Colombian philosopher and essayist. JAICA Scholar (Government of Japan, University of Tsukuba). For more than two decades he has worked in academic philosophy, in the fields of human ethology and the philosophy of language at the Universidad de los Andes, before building a career as an essayist and popular philosopher through his organization Seminarios La Vida Examinada. He is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Philosophical Salon, El Malpensante magazine and Arcadia among others. Since 2019 Palacio has belonged to the Intellectual Deep Web global network of thinkers and popular philosophers, run by the Swedish philosopher Alexander Bard. At FILBO 2023, he released La era de la ansiedad through the Ariel imprint of Planeta publishers; this work reflects on the possibility of overcoming the anxiety of our times through philosophical reflection.
Links to Roberto Palacio
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)