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Jan Söderqvist
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Jan Söderqvist (born 1961) is an author, lecturer, writer and consultant, and among other things also working as a literary and film critic for the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Söderqvist has written three books on the Internet revolution, collectively known as The Futurica Trilogy, together with philosopher Alexander Bard. Their first collaboration The Netocrats was originally released in Swedish in 2000, became available in English in 2003, and has since been translated to a further 16 languages with total worldwide sales exceeding 340,000 copies.
The second book The Global Empire was originally released in Swedish in 2003, while the third installment of the trilogy The Body Machines was originally published in Swedish in 2009. These latter two works were released in English in 2012, completing The Futurica Trilogy, in which the authors present their philosophical vision for a global and increasingly virtual society, as a consequence of the Internet revolution. Söderqvist and Bard released Syntheism: Creating God in the Internet Age, focusing on the metaphysics of the Internet age, in October 2014.
Söderqvist is known as a critic of laws regulating prostitution in Sweden and is one of the 15 founders of the Liberal Democratic Party of Sweden.
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In this alternative scheme, the notion of material, as fundamental, has been replaced by that of organic synthesis. But the approach has always been from the consideration of the actual intricacies of scientific thought, and of the peculiar perplexities which it suggests. In the present chapter, and in the immediately succeeding chapter, we will forget the peculiar problems of modern science, and will put ourselves…
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
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The most insignificant Doctor of Philosophy, nay, even the student, has no further use for a complete "system." In the modern state, it is predicated that every citizen is able to pass judgment on all the questions upon which he is called upon to vote; in political economy it is assumed that every consumer is thoroughly acquainted with all commodities, which he has occasion to buy to maintain himself withal, and the…
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
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The first pamphlet we lay before the public is called _The Northern Crisis_. It was printed in London in 1716, and relates to the intended Dano-Anglo-Russian _invasion of Skana_ (Schonen). During the year 1715 a northern alliance for the partition, not of Sweden proper, but of what we may call the Swedish Empire, had been concluded between Russia, Denmark, Poland, Prussia, and Hanover. That partition forms the first…
Karl Marx, Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century
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