‘Apocalypse & Post-Apocalyptic Thought’ by Slavoj Žižek | 14th October 2021

Video recording of Slavoj Žižek delivering a paper on various topics, including Elon Musk’s Neuralink, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Günther Anders, Sophocles’ Antigone, etc., for the occasion of the Inauguration of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies on 14th October 2021.

Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher and psychoanalytic social theorist. He is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London; Distinguished Scholar at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul; and Visiting Professor at the German Department, New York University. His field of work comprises Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, dialectical-materialist metaphysical interpretations of German Idealism and Marxian critique of ideology. His more than sixty books in English have been widely translated. His latest publications include ‘Pandemic!’ & ‘Pandemic! 2’, ‘Hegel in a Wired Brain’, ‘Sex and the Failed Absolute’, ‘Like A Thief In Broad Daylight’, ‘Reading Marx’, ‘Incontinence of the Void’, ‘The Day After the Revolution’ and ‘Disorder in Heaven’.

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