E148| Where Does Power Lie Today? Time, Attention, AI w/ Alexander Bard

The transition from industrial capitalism to an attentionalist paradigm necessitates a fundamental shift in how power is conceptualized, moving from economic control to "chronomics"—the management of time and human attention. Power manifests through a triadic structure of the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic, where data processing now dominates the symbolic register while mortality remains the ultimate, inescapable constant. Artificial intelligence, limited to recycling historical data, lacks the intuitive and abductive capacity of human consciousness, which remains essential for navigating the future. As traditional institutions like politics and academia collapse, society faces a chaotic period of reactionary populism. True transformation requires a move toward participatory culture and artistic engagement, where shamanoid figures act as catalysts for cross-congregational communication, fostering a generative, non-dogmatic approach to building a future that transcends the deterministic constraints of machine-generated dogma.