Slavoj Zizek - Thesis, prosthesis, synthesis @ Festivaletteratura 2021 (Only English parts)

Slavoj Zizek, author of ’Hegel in a Wired Brain’, at Festivaletteratura 2021 in Mantova, Italy, on the 11th of september. This video is a compilation of all the English parts, without the Italian translations, but it keeps the exchange of obscenities with the translator. Original video: Description: In the age of hyperconnection and transhuman dreams, there seems to be no place for the old Hegel, unless a philosopher makes his revolutionary insights his own and brings them back to the centre of the debate, proving their resilience in the face of yearning market utopias and futures subject to the rule of machines and algorithms. Slavoj Žižek is no stranger to speculative ventures of this kind: after having signed a far-sighted philosophical diary on the time of the pandemic (Virus), in Hegel e il cervello postumano (Hegel and the post-human brain) - the premise of his dialogue with Mauro Carbone (I poteri degli schermi) -, the Slovenian thinker has resorte