In the era of hyperconnectivity and transhuman dreams, there seems to be no place for old Hegel, unless a philosopher embraces his revolutionary insights and brings them back to the center of debate, proving their resilience against market utopias and futures subject to the rule of machines and algorithms. Slavoj Žižek is no stranger to speculative endeavors of this kind: after penning a farsighted philosophical diary on the time of the pandemic (Virus), in Hegel and the Posthuman Brain – the prelude to his dialogue with Mauro Carbone (The Powers of Screens) – the Slovenian thinker has turned to the lamp of dialectics to illuminate an epoch in which the relationship between mental processes and digital devices is becoming increasingly close. The hypothesis, far from science fiction, of a wired brain, may be heralding the most Hegelian century ever and raises new, urgent questions about our freedom.
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