Jan Söderqvist, born 1961, is an author

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, lecturer, writer

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 and consultant

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, and among other things also working as a literary and film critic for the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet

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. He has written the books Nätokraterna (published in English in 2003 as Netocracy

Netocracy

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: The New Power Elite & Life After Capitalism, as well as in 14 further languages), a second book titled Det globala imperiet (currently in translation to English as The Global Empire) and a third book titled Kroppsmaskinerna (originally published in 2009, currently in translation to English as The Body Machines) together with Alexander Bard

Alexander Bard

Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard is a Swedish artist, music producer and writer.-Background and education:Bard was born Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard in Medevi, Motala Municipality, Sweden. After he had completed his upper secondary education, Bard studied in the United States and in Amsterdam, Netherlands...

, in which they present a philosophical vision for a global society

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 following the interactive revolution.

Söderqvist is known as a critic of laws about Prostitution in Sweden

Prostitution in Sweden

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and is one of the 15 founders of the Liberal Democratic Party of Sweden.