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/ Alexander Bard's Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny ---...

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...

A conversation where media artist and scholar Orsolya Bajusz tells her story about how as an activist she was attacked and scapegoated by a social justice lynch mob and how she won the war against mass psychosis and authoritarianism.  A critique of woke culture and political correctness and how to live in a post woke future. Orsolya Bajusz concludes by telling us: ‘Don’t be a doormat, don’t be a pillar saint!’. Here is the summary of Orsolya Bajusz’s...

Our third discussion of various Tantric traditions and Tantra’s place in the west.  What are the causes and conditions necessary for Tantra to flourish? What is the value of Neo Tantra?  How to preserve ‘The barred absolute’, or the secrecy necessary for genuine tantric practice? Links: Parallax Magazine Alexander Bard's Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Intro music:...

The Tantric path gives us a Parallax or another view of reality. A description of the 9 vehicles of Buddhism including Tantra, comparing the Tantric approach with Western ‘eventological’ religion and Zoroastrianism. Note: This talk is shorter than usual because the depth of this topic requires at least 3 more talks, and this might be easier to digest. But it is still full of our usual mischievous fun and interruption of the banal. Links: Parallax Magazine Alexander Bard's Books; The...

Sweeny vs Bard S03E10: Western Tantra? - with Thomas Hamelryck Can Tantra flourish in western society that is predominantly Christian and Moslem?  What are the historical roots of Tantra? Is Tantra a religion?  Is Tantra sexual technique or a spiritual practice?  A wide ranging discussion on all things Tantra, from Vajrayana Buddhist tantra to neo Tantra.  A boisterous conversation that Alexander says is the best one we have had yet.  (And Thomas H assures us that he is pretty indifferent to...

Links: Parallax Magazine Alexander Bard's Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andrew-sweeny/message

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: Parallax Magazine Alexander Bard's Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny --- Send in a voice message:...

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...

Links: Parallax Youtube Newsletter Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: Cadell Last’s books Sex, God, and Masculinity: Global Brain Singularity Alexander Bard's Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andrew-sweeny/message

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. Links: Parallax Youtube Newsletter Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence...

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: Maniphesto The European Men’s Movement    Parallax Magazine Support Parallax on...

Our first live Sweeny vs Bard on Parallax and the most fun we have had yet! Links:    Parallax Magazine Support Parallax on Patreon Cadell Last’s YouTube Channel:   Cadell Last’s books Sex, God, and Masculinity: Global Brain Singularity: 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) --- Send in a...

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...

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,...

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: DONATE ON...

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.    Thomas Hamelryck is a scientist who...

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...

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,...

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...

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:   Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation:  Monism  The eternal return...