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After the monumental Futurica Trilogy comes a book that dares to describe individualism as the now defunct religion it always was and describe a reality that is primarily virtual, rather than physical. While the authors do not mind challenging the reader"s view of the self and the world, their main intention here is to induce passive receivers of the future to become more active participants. This work offers engaging observations and perceptive interpretations of contemporary society.
Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist are Swedish philosophers and authors of the internationally successful Futurica Trilogy. They lecture the world over about the current global internet revolution. Bard & Söderqvist are regarded as pioneers in the literary genre futurica, where philosophy, social theory and futurology merge. After joining forces in the late 1990s, Bard & Söderqvist argued that the interactive revolution is the most profound and radical of all technological revolutions in the history of mankind, that it completely transforms society in every aspect: politics, the economy, culture, social power structures, the collective world view and the whole concept of being human.
Bard & Söderqvist demonstrated the effects of network dynamics on various levels of a globalised world. They not only made controversial predictions in the early years of the new millennium (and cleverly foresaw both the dot.com crash and the September 11 terror attacks), they have since then been proven right in virtually every aspect and even in the most minute of details. Not only did Bard & Söderqvist foresee revolutionary innovations such as Google, Facebook, Al-Qaida and Wikileaks; they also went deeper and looked into the very power struggle of the on-going revolution itself.
Bard & Söderqvist are now back with a proposal for a complete new metaphysics for the digital age, and it is called Syntheism - Creating God in The Internet Age.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- INDEX
- CHAPTER 01 Everything is religion
- CHAPTER 02 The three dramatic revolutions of the Internet age
- CHAPTER 03 The four paradigms in the history of metaphysics
- CHAPTER 04 Living religion versus deadly alienation
- CHAPTER 05 The syntheological pyramid – Atheos, Pantheos, Entheos and Syntheos
- CHAPTER 06 Irreducible multiplicity – syntheism as a process religion
- CHAPTER 07 Intensities and phenomena in a relationalist universe
- CHAPTER 08 From semiotics via memetics to the collapse of militant atheism
- CHAPTER 09 The syntheist agent and her desires and drives
- CHAPTER 10 The free and open Internet versus the ecological apocalypse
- CHAPTER 11 Syntheism as a radicalisation of atheism – and its dialectical dissolution
- CHAPTER 12 Truth as an act – the road to the fourth singularity
- CHAPTER 13 Participatory culture, religious rituals and psychedelic practices
- CHAPTER 14 Syntheist temples and monasteries in the global empire
- Glossary