Discussion, Podcast

Intelligence Squared: Zizek on Hegel in a Wired Brain

28 July 12:00 am

Intelligence Squared:

July 28 2020

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek speaks to Shahidha Bari about the philosophical giant that changed our way of thinking about posthumanism. Together they investigate what he might have had to say about the idea of the ‘singularity’ and the ‘wired brain’ – what happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a digital machine emerges.

 

Zizek: Hegel in a Wired Brain