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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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