Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI

Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

The return of philosopher Alexander Bard in dialogue on power, time, attention and AI in the liminal period associable to Capitalism and ‘Attentionalism’.

This continues threads from e145 - ‘Where are we in history?’ in which the notions of paradigmatics, membranics, and archetypology framed how we might approach an understanding of the social and technological changes taking place today. youtu.be/2V58TpMOfsY

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Chapters - mostly AI gen (these conversations aren't linear and rarely map well to chapter stamps)

00:00 Intro (Recap of Where are we in history?)
04:31 Beyond Economics: Sex, Power and Violence
10:54 Chronomics: A New Paradigm of Time
26:18 Dystopian vs. Protopian Perspectives
36:48 The Shift from Capital to Attention
43:34 The Triad of Power: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real (Lacan)
49:00 Imaginary Power and Its Contexts
55:30 Sensocracy and the Future of Governance
1:03:43 The Tyranny of the Past and AI's Limitations
1:07:47 The Chaos of Future Politics
1:12:01 Why Space Gives Potency to Time
1:15:28 Influencers and Elites
1:21:32 Populism, Mobs, and the Future of Collective Action
1:29:57 Rethinking Communism and Religion
1:40:55 Girard on the Mob, and Art Against Fundamentalism
1:46:24 The Future of AI and Mathematics
2:00:07 Emergentism and the Nature of Consciousness

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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

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