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, Hegel (and for me Trungpa). And we talk about the need for sex education, alchemy, and the barred absolute in religion. And we also discover what Alexander Bard eats for breakfast (Hegel of course). Enjoy.

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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 in the network society

Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny

Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 1: Sex, Forgiveness, and Karma: With Thomas Hamelryck