Hegel in A Wired Brain
Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era.

No ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' – what happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a digital machine emerges. Žižek explores the phenomenon of a wired brain effect, and what might happen when we can share our thoughts directly with others. He hones in on the key question of how it shapes our experience and status as 'free' individuals and asks what it means to be human when a machine can read our minds.

With characteristic verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, Žižek connects Hegel to the world we live in now, shows why he is much more fun than anyone gives him credit for, and why the 21st century might just be Hegelian.

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Hegel in A Wired Brain
Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era.

No ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' – what happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a digital machine emerges. Žižek explores the phenomenon of a wired brain effect, and what might happen when we can share our thoughts directly with others. He hones in on the key question of how it shapes our experience and status as 'free' individuals and asks what it means to be human when a machine can read our minds.

With characteristic verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, Žižek connects Hegel to the world we live in now, shows why he is much more fun than anyone gives him credit for, and why the 21st century might just be Hegelian.

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Hegel in A Wired Brain

Hegel in A Wired Brain

by Slavoj Zizek
Hegel in A Wired Brain

Hegel in A Wired Brain

by Slavoj Zizek

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Overview

Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era.

No ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' – what happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a digital machine emerges. Žižek explores the phenomenon of a wired brain effect, and what might happen when we can share our thoughts directly with others. He hones in on the key question of how it shapes our experience and status as 'free' individuals and asks what it means to be human when a machine can read our minds.

With characteristic verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, Žižek connects Hegel to the world we live in now, shows why he is much more fun than anyone gives him credit for, and why the 21st century might just be Hegelian.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350264045
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/30/2021
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: “Un jour, peut-être, le siècle sera hégélien”

1. The Digital Police State: Fichte's Revenge on Hegel

2. The Idea of a Wired Brain and its Limitation

3. The Impasse of Soviet Tech-Gnosis

4. Singularity: the Gnostic Turban

5. The Fall that Makes Us Like God

6. Reflexivity of the Unconscious

7. A Literary Fantasy: the Unnamable Subject of Singularity

A Treatise on Digital Apocalypse

Index

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