Part 1 of the RISE OF NEW MASTERS Masterclass. Sadly, part 2 wasn’t recorded. Birkbeck, University of London

Part 1 of “I’m watching you” at International Author’s Stage The Slovenian star philosopher Slavoj Žižek in the first of two conversations on surveillance with interviewer Paul Holdengräber, director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library. Copenhagen, Admiral Hotel

In the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) of Harman and his colleagues, the human subject is redefined according to the pressures of a “flat ontology” that treats all objects equally. In opposition to OOO, Žižek upholds the pivotal role of the subject as theorized in the tradition of the German philosophers Immanuel Kant, G.W. Hegel and F.W.J.