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Aug 17, 2026 · 2 hr 3 min · 12 segments
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 the conversation…
Alexander BardGuest
Tim AdalinHost
We did speak a little bit to your conception of chronomy in the last podcast, and particular to that was an emphasis on attention, treating attention as sacred, essentially beginning in the cultivation of one's own capacity to attend well.
You spoke to meditation and contemplation, and that's a little bit of what you're pointing to there.
It is interesting to me because I know that obviously still data, information, uh, control of data flows is nevertheless part of how you are analyzing power showing up today in digital libido that is connoted with the real, and there's a bit to say there.
I mean, examples could obviously be Amazon, and we spoke, you know, and, and Google and all the rest of them.
I mentioned the notion of hacking synchronicity, which is basically just pointing to something similar to what, uh, Yanis Varoufakis points to in algorithms and data capture so effective that it can predict what you want and train you to teach it more of what you want and get inside your loop of decision-making as best it can, so as to, uh, treat your attention as something more quantifiable, instrumentalizable, and all of that.
He still thinks capitalism, and this is why I don't call myself a Marxist anymore, because the true spirit of Karl Marx today is not to stay with the Marxist like resembling Yanis.
But what are the data companies doing that are collecting all our data and processing that data? They try to fuck our brains-
What they don't see is that people today like you and me with our laptops and our smartphones and our little lives that we're living within our sociomes.
We did speak a little bit to your conception of chronomy in the last podcast, and particular to that was an emphasis on attention, treating attention as sacred, essentially beginning in the cultivation of one's own capacity to attend well.
You spoke to meditation and contemplation, and that's a little bit of what you're pointing to there.
It is interesting to me because I know that obviously still data, information, uh, control of data flows is nevertheless part of how you are analyzing power showing up today in digital libido that is connoted with the real, and there's a bit to say there.
I mean, examples could obviously be Amazon, and we spoke, you know, and, and Google and all the rest of them.
I mentioned the notion of hacking synchronicity, which is basically just pointing to something similar to what, uh, Yanis Varoufakis points to in algorithms and data capture so effective that it can predict what you want and train you to teach it more of what you want and get inside your loop of decision-making as best it can, so as to, uh, treat your attention as something more quantifiable, instrumentalizable, and all of that.
He still thinks capitalism, and this is why I don't call myself a Marxist anymore, because the true spirit of Karl Marx today is not to stay with the Marxist like resembling Yanis.
But what are the data companies doing that are collecting all our data and processing that data? They try to fuck our brains-
What they don't see is that people today like you and me with our laptops and our smartphones and our little lives that we're living within our sociomes.
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