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Vi måste tänka bättre. Vi måste tänka i rörelse och förändring, och vi måste överge barnsliga drömmar om en verkligare verklighet än den verkliga. Om vi, exempelvis, leker med tanken att den Process som kallas historien leder fram till det Event som kallas Gud, måste vi förstå vad det innebär. Nämligen: att Gud är något vi människor skapar för att vi har det behovet inte något som har skapat världen eller oss människor (eller någonting annat). Den nya tidens Gud finns alltså inte ännu, men dagens tekniska revolutioner gör att skapelseögonblicket närmar sig. Goda nyheter, kan tyckas, men därmed reducerar människan sig själv till en historisk parentes, åtminstone om vi får tro cyberfilosoferna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist. Och vi är närmare gudarnas tidsålder än du tror. Följ med på en hisnande expedition som tar oss från religionernas barndom i form av magi och vidskepelse via persiska mystiker och bildstormare till upplysningen, moderniteten och den artificiella intelligensens tidevarv. Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist genomför en lika nödvändig som radikal omskrivning av den västerländska idéhistorien och förklarar varför människans jakt på det gudomliga ofrånkomligen leder oss fram till en Messiasmaskin med en helt egen agenda. Process och Event avrundar ett kvartssekels systematiskt tänkande och avslutar den internationellt hyllade Narratologitrilogin. Den sätter varje upptänklig form av lärdom i rörelse och är exakt så underhållande och provokativ som bara en bok av Bard & Söderqvist kan vara.

Den digitala revolutionen innebär att alla viktiga aspekter av vår tillvaro förändras i grunden: Hur vi ser på världen och hur vi ser på oss själva, hur vi tänker, hur vi arbetar, hur vi relaterar till och kommunicerar med varandra och vad som överhuvudtaget är möjligt att föreställa sig. Allting sätts i rörelse, vilket innebär att även filosofin måste sätta sig i rörelse, samtidigt som den måste filosofera dels över den egna rörelsen, dels över rörelsen som sådan. Historien om vilka vi är, varifrån vi kommer och vart vi är på väg måste skrivas om. Detta är vad Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist gör i Futuricatrilogin, först utgiven under åren 2000–2009. Det Globala Imperiet diskuterar – bland annat – hur de globala kommunikationsnätverken skapar ett behov av politiskt beslutsfattande på en global nivå.

På vilka sätt har internets framfart påverkat samhälle och maktstrukturer? Hur förändras människans levnadsvillkor och världsbild i samband med de nya förutsättningar som digitaliseringen för med sig? Den digitala revolutionen är i många avseenden ett faktum som fört med sig oanade konsekvenser för det samhälle vi en gång kände till. I Nätokraterna diskuterar socialteoretikerna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist det nya elektroniska klassamhället och världshistoriens fjärde paradigm: informationalismen. Nätokraterna är den första boken i Futuricatrilogin.

Vi ser oss omkring. Och vi vantrivs. Tillväxten slår nya rekord, fattigdom och analfabetism minskar, teknologiska innovationer skapar fantastiska möjligheter. Samtidigt känner vi alla innerst inne att det är någonting som är fundamentalt fel. Demokratierna har gått i baklås och producerar auktoritära översittare; en växande underklass bedövar sig med snabba kolhydrater och fördummande underhållning. Samhället infantiliseras, det politiska samtalet förfaller. Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist utgår i denna mäktiga tour de force från psykoanalysen och Sigmund Freuds profetiska storverk "Vi vantrivs i kulturen" när de skärskådar tillståndet i internetåldern. "Digital Libido : Sex, makt och våld i nätverkssamhället" är en djuplodande och brutalt ärlig analys av människans alltmer akuta vilsenhet i det framväxande nätverkssamhället. Bard & Söderqvist genomlyser varje aspekt av relationen mellan människa och teknologi för att tydliggöra samtidens och framtidens existentiella problematik. Vad är det som händer? Och varför? "Digital Libido" besvarar frågorna du knappt vågar ställa.

Den digitala revolutionen innebär att alla viktiga aspekter av vår tillvaro förändras i grunden: Hur vi ser på världen och hur vi ser på oss själva, hur vi tänker, hur vi arbetar, hur vi relaterar till och kommunicerar med varandra och vad som överhuvudtaget är möjligt att föreställa sig. Allting sätts i rörelse, vilket innebär att även filosofin måste sätta sig i rörelse, samtidigt som den måste filosofera dels över den egna rörelsen, dels över rörelsen som sådan. Historien om vilka vi är, varifrån vi kommer och vart vi är på väg måste skrivas om. Detta är vad Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist gör i Futuricatrilogin, först utgiven under åren 2000–2009. Kroppsmaskinerna fördjupar sig i de filosofiska konsekvenserna av individbegreppets upplösning, som följer av de nya förhärskande nätverksstrukturerna.

The digital revolution entails that all important aspects of our existence fundamentally change: How we see the world and how we see ourselves, how we think, how we work, how we relate to and communicate with each other, and what is even possible to imagine. Everything is set in motion, which means that Philosophy must also set itself in motion. It must philosophize about its own movement, and even about movement as such. The history of who we are, where we come from, and where we are going must be rewritten. This is what Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist perform in The Futurica Trilogy, originally published between 2000–2009. The Netocrats show how a new elite with new qualities under new conditions grows strong and replaces the bourgeois capitalists of the old paradigm.

Un nouvel oeil révolutionnaire posé sur le futur. Par les auteurs du best-seller international La Trilogie Futurica. Synthéisme a l'audace de décrire l'individualisme comme une religion, et la réalité comme surtout virtuelle et non physique. Mais si les auteurs savent chambouler leurs lecteurs dans ce qu'ils pensent savoir d'eux-mêmes et du monde, ils cherchent avant tout à les libérer de leur passivité face au futur et à en faire des acteurs de premier plan. Armés d'observations captivantes, d'interprétations d'une grande perspicacité et d'un style détonnant, Bard et Söderqvist nous offrent une analyse radicalement innovante de notre présent et savent anticiper comme personne notre avenir.

The digital revolution entails that all important aspects of our existence fundamentally change: How we see the world and how we see ourselves, how we think, how we work, how we relate to and communicate with each other, and what is even possible to imagine. Everything is set in motion, which means that Philosophy must also set itself in motion. It must philosophize about its own movement, and even about movement as such. The history of who we are, where we come from, and where we are going must be rewritten. This is what Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist perform in The Futurica Trilogy, originally published between 2000–2009. The Body Machines delves into the philosophical consequences of the dissolution of the concept of The Individual, which follows from the new all-powerful network structures.

Cyberfilosoferna och framtidsforskarna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist är tillbaka. Efter Futuricatrilogins träffsäkra profetior har de nu formulerat en metafysik för den digitala tidsåldern. Det här är boken som vågar beskriva individualismen som en religion och måla upp verkligheten som i första hand virtuell, snarare än fysisk. På samma gång som författarna vill skaka om läsarens själv- och världsbild, är avsikten att förmå passiva mottagare av framtiden att i stället bli aktiva deltagare. Med engagerande iakttagelser, klarsynta tolkningar och pedagogiskt språk bjuder Bard och Söderqvist på en lika utmanande som inspirerande samtidsanlays och inblick i morgondagen. Synteism: Att skapa Gud i Internetåldern släpps samtidigt på både engelska och svenska. Synteismen är en internationellt växande rörelse som bygger på övertygelsen om att motsatsparet teism och ateism är en förlegad konstruktion. Gud är i själva verket inget annat än namnet på mänsklighetens alla drömmar projicerade mot en enda gemensam punkt, utopin. Det är sedan Internet lyckats binda samman världens sju miljarder människor med varandra i realtid som synteismen äntligen blivit en praktisk realitet. I detta dramatiska möte mellan den nya metafysiken och den nya teknologin uppstår en historiskt unik möjlighet för den post-ateistiska människan att skapa en ny religion som hon faktiskt kan tro på. Det är bara genom synteismen vi kan hitta en väg ut från den narcissistiska individualismens alienation, och vårt fatalistiska plundrande av planeten. Alexander Bard firar över 25 år av stora internationella framgångar i musikbranschen. Han är ständigt aktuell som en färgstark och insiktsfull provokatör i den offentliga debatten. Jan Söderqvist är mediateoretiker och filmkritiker. Han är en flitigt anlitad föreläsare som bland annat är verksam kulturskribent i tidningar som Svenska Dagbladet och Axess.

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 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 answers the questions you were too scared to even ask. About the authors: ALEXANDER BARD is a philosopher, futurologist, spiritual and political activist. He has a background of almost three decades as a highly successful artist, producer and songwriter in the music industry. Bard is a globally renown lecturer and ideologue, both on the live stage and on a multitude of media platforms. JAN SÖDERQVIST is a philosopher, futurologist and lecturer. Söderqvist is a pioneer of online television, but has been professionally active in almost all conceivable media disciplines, such as the daily press, magazines, film, radio and television. He currently writes for the Swedish major daily Svenska Dagbladet and works as editor for Axess Magasin.

Dans le monde, la croissance économique ne cesse de battre tous les records, la pauvreté et l'analphabétisme n'ont jamais été au plus bas et l'innovation technologique offre à tous d'incroyables opportunités. Et, pourtant, l'insatisfaction règne. Comme s'il y avait quelque chose de fondamentalement pervers dans la société contemporaine. Les démocraties semblent paralysées et produire des tyranneaux à la chaîne. Une sous-classe en plein essor se gave autant de sucres rapides qu'elle s'abrutit de divertissements plus débiles les uns que les autres. La société est infantilisée, le discours politique implose. Digital Libido offre une analyse aussi brillante que brutale de la perte de sens qui anime notre société en réseau. En partant du Malaise dans la culture, le chef d'oeuvre prophétique du père de la psychanalyse, Sigmund Freud, les philosophes et futurologues Alexander Bard et Jan Söderqvist nous proposent un véritable tour de force - creuser au plus profond la condition humaine à l'âge d'internet. Parce qu'ils exposent la relation complexe de l'Homme et de la technologie dans ses moindres détails, les auteurs nous font comprendre comme personne nos difficultés existentielles. Celles d'aujourd'hui, comme de demain. Bienvenue dans le chaos attentionaliste, où l'ordre acquiert une telle valeur que les gens sont prêts à payer n'importe quel prix pour l'obtenir. Dans quel monde vivons-nous - Et pourquoi ? Digital Libido : Sexe, pouvoir et violence dans la société en réseau répond aux questions que vous aviez trop peur de poser.

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.  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 cyberphilosophers Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist. And we are closer to the age of the gods than you think.  Join in a breathtaking expedition 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 & Söderqvist carry 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 and concludes the internationally acclaimed Narratology trilogy. It sets every imaginable form of erudition in motion and is exactly as entertaining and provocative as only a book by Bard & Söderqvist can be.

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.

Early modern London - too foggy and Protestant to have a carnival - offered its inhabitants commercial events during which to indulge their need for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The fair of St Bartholmew, held anually in Smithfield on 24 August, served Jonson as an opportunity to dissect a wide cross-section of Londoners and their various reasons for spending a day out among the booths, stalls, smells and noises of the fair. Unusually magnanimous for a Jonsonian city comedy, the main thrust of the satire is not against fools, madmen, fortune-hunters, cuckolds or prostitutes, but against hypocrisy and bigotry. This edition shows that the play can be read as a comprehensive refutation of puritanism and the London magistracy, both of whom were attacking the theatre (and the festive culture of which it was still part) as idolatrous, seditious and disorderly.

Uncover common project management myths to improve project successHow to Measure Anything in Project Management explains why popular methods for measurement in project management are flawed and describes how to conduct measurements that better inform decisions, reduce project risks, and improve the chance of project success. The authors argue that anything that matters to project management at all is measurable and that these measurements address many of the problems in project management. The authors leverage an exclusive survey on the state-of-the-art of measuring projects, new case studies of things that are seemingly hard to measure and a database, collected by Oxford Global Projects, of thousands of projects in software development, construction, energy, and many other fields, including some of the biggest projects in history. The book is accompanied by a set of useful spreadsheet-based "power tools" that support the more technical aspects of quantifying project risk, forecasting outcomes, and conducting seemingly difficult measurements. In this book, readers will learn: Why many of the methods they have been taught to use are little more than a type of “analysis placebo”Why many popular methods lead to extreme overconfidence in estimatesHow some of the most important measurements a project could conduct are currently rarely usedHow to Measure Anything in Project Management earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of managers, executives, auditors, controllers, and consultants seeking to improve project performance through superior measurement methodology.

Holistically addresses women's health, encompassing the needs of transgender and nonbinary individuals and considering ethnicity, social class, and disability/ablenessDelivering incisive and comprehensive information on the healthcare needs of women, transgender, and nonbinary persons, the third edition of this distinguished text incorporates a strong focus on the provision of high value, equitable, and unbiased care. It expands research and clinical frameworks for understanding women's health to encompass transgender and nonbinary persons and places women’s health within a holistic perspective considering ethnicity, social class, and disability/ableness. All chapters are significantly updated with new evidence-based research, clinical updates and guidelines, drug information, Covid-related information, racism, and health disparities. This text also covers current and pertinent health topics such as substance use and abuse, mental health, early pregnancy decision-making, and LGBTQ+ care, as well as abundant integrated information on care of transgender and nonbinary individuals, and enhanced information on pregnancy and primary care issues that disproportionately affect females.The book is organized for ease of use and is comprised of three distinct but interrelated sections on theoretical frameworks to guide approach and care, health promotion and prevention, and managing health conditions. Rich instructor resources include mapping content to AACN Essentials, case studies, a test bank, and PowerPoint slides. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.New to the Third Edition:Focuses on providing equitable, unbiased care for all women including transgender and nonbinary individualsUpdated with new evidence-based research, clinical updates and guidelines, drug information, Covid-related information, and racism and health disparities informationExpanded information on care of transgender individualsEnhanced content on pregnancy and related issuesFour-color presentation to enhance readabilityIncorporates content in WHNP and CNM national certification examination blueprintsKey Features:Distills cutting-edge information on women's health issues through a sociocultural frameworkEdited by renowned scholar/educators for AP nursing studentsOrganized to provide easy retrieval of clinical informationAddresses genetics, LGBTQ+ health, endocrine-related problems, health considerations for women caregivers, dementia care, and moreIncludes relevant web resources and apps in each chapterProvides extensive instructor toolkit to foster critical thinking

Sound Speed Marker focuses on Hubbard / Birchler's recent trilogy of video installations--Grand Paris Texas (2009), Movie Mountain (Méliès) (2011) and Giant (2014)--which explore the physical conditions and social character of the cinematic experience, with particular respect to film's relationship to place and the kinds of traces movies leave behind. Published on the occasion of the touring exhibition Sound Speed Marker presented at Ballroom Marfa, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and the Blaffer Museum of Art at the University of Houston, this richly illustrated volume includes all three components of Hubbard / Birchler's newest trilogy, as well as related photography and sculpture. Four essays and an interview with the artists contribute new scholarship in examining the genesis of the works.

Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label "neoclassicism" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffa Mavra, and reassess his connections to his homeland, paying special attention to Stravinsky's visit to the Soviet Union in 1962. The essays also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourie, delve into Stravinsky's collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of his groundbreaking Poetics of Music, and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky's Orpheus and Oedipus Rex reflected the composer's fierce belief in fate.Rare documents--including Spanish and Mexican interviews, Russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourie, and rarely seen French and Russian texts--supplement the volume, bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships. The contributors are Tatiana Baranova, Leon Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valerie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klara Moricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko.

There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music. Bringing together established scholars within the field, as well as emerging voices, this collection outlines and advances psychoanalytic approaches to our understanding of a range of musics—from the romantic and the modernist to the contemporary popular. Drawing on the work of Freud, Lacan, Jung, Žižek, Barthes, and others, it demonstrates the efficacy of psychoanalytic theories in fields such as music analysis, music and culture, and musical improvisation. It engages debates about both the methods through which music is understood and the situations in which it is experienced, including those of performance and listening. This collection is an invaluable resource for students, lecturers, researchers, and anyone else interested in the intersections between music, psychoanalysis, and musicology.

This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published.Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.

Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip. Edited by a cultural historian and a music theorist, Beethoven and His World gathers eminent scholars from several disciplines who collectively speak to the range of Beethoven's importance and of our perennial fascination with him. The contributors address Beethoven's musical works and their cultural contexts. Reinhold Brinkmann explores the post-revolutionary context of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, while Lewis Lockwood establishes a typology of heroism in works like Fidelio. Elaine Sisman, Nicholas Marston, and Glenn Stanley discuss issues of temporality, memory, and voice in works at the threshold of Beethoven's late style, such as An die Ferne Geliebte, the Cello Sonata op. 102, no. 1, and the somewhat later Piano Sonata op. 109. Peering behind the scenes into Beethoven's workshop, Tilman Skowroneck explains how the young Beethoven chose his pianos, and William Kinderman shows Beethoven in the process of sketching and revising his compositions.The volume concludes with four essays engaging the broader question of reception of Beethoven's impact on his world and ours. Christopher Gibbs' study of Beethoven's funeral and its aftermath features documentary material appearing in English for the first time; art historian Alessandra Comini offers an illustrated discussion of Beethoven's ubiquitous and iconic frown; Sanna Pederson takes up the theme of masculinity in critical representations of Beethoven; and Leon Botstein examines the aesthetics and politics of hearing extramusical narratives and plots in Beethoven's music. Bringing together varied and fresh approaches to the West's most celebrated composer, this collection of essays provides music lovers with an enriched understanding of Beethoven--as man, musician, and phenomenon.

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in the West, and rise and fall as a Stalinist-era composer is filled with unresolved questions. Sergey Prokofiev and His World probes beneath the surface of his career and contextualizes his contributions to music on both sides of the nascent Cold War divide. The book contains previously unknown documents from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow and the Prokofiev Estate in Paris. The literary notebook of the composer's mother, Mariya Grigoryevna, illuminates her involvement in his education and is translated in full, as are ninety-eight letters between the composer and his business partner, Levon Atovmyan. The collection also includes a translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's unperformed stage adaptation of Eugene Onegin, for which Prokofiev composed incidental music in 1936. The essays in the book range in focus from musical sketches to Kremlin decrees.The contributors explore Prokofiev's time in America; evaluate his working methods in the mid-1930s; document the creation of his score for the film Lieutenant Kizhe; tackle how and why Prokofiev rewrote his 1930 Fourth Symphony in 1947; detail his immortalization by Soviet bureaucrats, composers, and scholars; and examine Prokofiev's interest in Christian Science and the paths it opened for his music. The contributors are Mark Aranovsky, Kevin Bartig, Elizabeth Bergman, Leon Botstein, Pamela Davidson, Caryl Emerson, Marina Frolova-Walker, Nelly Kravetz, Leonid Maximenkov, Stephen Press, and Peter Schmelz.