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In Hegel and the Wired Brain, Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of philosophical giant G.W.F. Hegel 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.
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 Turn
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
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In Hegel and the Wired Brain, Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of philosophical giant G.W.F. Hegel 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.
