Dr Hager Weslati
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Course Leader MA Media & Communication
- Email:
- h.weslati@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am course director of the MA in Media and Communication and a core faculty member in the department of Journalism, Publishing and Media since 2010. I have also taught at Lancaster University, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tunis, and have been visiting senior research fellow in American studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the New School, New York
I lead teaching on and contribute to the curriculum design of BA and MA modules on media narratives and the podcasting industry, media philosophy, the psychoanalysis of social media, software studies, media archaeology and strategic political communication
Qualifications
- PhD
- FHEA
- SFHEA
Domains
Course director
My primary research interest is in contemporary philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of information, psychoanalysis, and political communication.
My current work explores the manuscripts of Alexandre Kojève and their ideological translations in Western and Eastern (philosophical) thought around the notions of authority, legality, and power. Past projects include studies on spatial ordering after the end of history, theology after modern physics, the aesthetics of visual vacancy in film and contemporary art, and the role of women's travel writings in shaping modernist projects of transnational cultural governance
Current PhD supervision includes projects in progress on the semiotics of social media, the metaphysics of Palestinian cinema, the algorithm of authority, and manifestations of the ordinary psychosis in AI and new media technologies
I welcome PhD proposals related or relevant to my areas of specialism.
Publications
Kant
Kojève, Alexandre and Weslati, Hager (2024). London, U.K.: (Verso Books)
Hegel, logic and speculation
(2019). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury Publishing)
[Translation] Notion of authority by Alexandre Kojeve
Weslati, Hager (2014). London, U.K.: (Verso Books)
Kojève, Kant, and paganism
Weslati, Hager, 2024, Continental Philosophy Review
Critique of pure violence : Weil contra Kojeve
Weslati, Hager, 2024, Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (8), 1, pp 46-62
Tyranny and boredom
Weslati, Hager, 2023, Journal for Cultural Research (27), 2, pp 172-188
«Предположив, что истина есть женщина»: КОнцеПтУАЛьные ПеРСОнАжи КОжеВА и иХ РОЛь В егО СиСтеме ЗнАния = "Supposing that truth is a woman" : Kojève's conceptual characters and their role in his system of knowledge
Weslati, Hager, 2022, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie = New Literary Observer (175), pp 26-39
Book Review of: 'Atheism' by Alexander Kojève, translated by Jeff Love ; and 'The black circle, a life of Alexander Kojève' by Jeff Jove
Weslati, Hager, 2020, Chiasma : A Site For Thought (6), 1, pp 200-216
Unaccented beat : positional politics and the enigma of visibility in The Stuart Hall Project
Weslati, Hager, 2018, African and Black Diaspora (11), 3, pp 293-308
The Inexistent in the Ontology of Alexandre Kojève
Weslati, Hager, 2017, China Media Research (13), 4, pp 48-56
Kojeve's letter to Stalin
Weslati, Hager, 2014, Radical Philosophy (184), pp 7-18
La pensée du desert: the paradox of 'theory' and the narrative of boom and bust in cultural studies
Weslati, Hager, 2010, Tropismes (16), pp 47-62
Introduction : speculation and hermeneutics of effectual reality
Pagano, Maurizio and Weslati, Hager (2019). In: Bubbio, Paolo Diego, (eds.), De Cesaris, Alessandro, (eds.), Pagano, Maurizio, (eds.) and Weslati, Hager, (eds.), London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 1-14
The silence of logik : Hegel after Kojeve
Weslati, Hager (2019). In: Pagano, Maurizio, (eds.), Bubbio, Diego, (eds.), De Cesaris, Alessandro, (eds.) and Weslati, Hager, (eds.), London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 217-232
Travel in disguise: on travel writing and cultural governance
Weslati, Hager (2009). In: Brisson, Ulrike, (eds.) and Schweizer, Bernard, (eds.), Not so innocent abroad: the politics of travel and travel writing. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp 85-109
Deserts in literary and religious fundamentalism
Weslati, Hager (2008). In: Stierstorfer, Klaus, (eds.) and Kern-Stähler, Annette, (eds.), Literary encounters of fundamentalism: a case book. Heidelberg: Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter, pp 187-212
Kojève's Sophia : bored girls and the philosopher in the striped pyjamas
Weslati, Hager(2021). In: Kojève: here and now: international workshop 2021, 1 - 3 Sept. 2021 :Held online
Philosophie et politique : Qu'est-ce que l'autorite? = Kojeve, philosophy and politics : what is authority?
Palma, Massimo and Weslati, Hager(2019). In: Kojeve - dialogues : pratiques extra-philosophiques de la philosophie, 29 Mar 2019 :Paris, France
Silicon Valley's sovereign individuals and the rise of occult politics
Weslati, Hager(2018). In: 15th Annual Historical Materialism Conference 'Taking on the Right', 08 - 11 November 2018 :London, U.K.
The Aesopian challenge
Weslati, Hager(2018). In: Exemplarity, authority, universalizability : how is a geopolitics of philosophy to be conceptualised?, 04 May 2018 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
The question of symbolization and the philosophy of the fourth subject after modern physics
Weslati, Hager(2016). In: SEP-FEP 2016, 25 - 27 Aug 2016 :London, U.K.
The polyhedron of social inequality, social change and media events
Weslati, Hager(2016). In: New perspectives on researching social inequality, 05 Feb 2016 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Les campus engages de Tunis a Rio : l'insurgence de l'anti-ethnologie du « dehors » dans l'enseignement de Michel Foucault
Weslati, Hager(2015). In: Les epistemologies politiques de la decolonisation, 23 Mar 2015 :Paris, France
Bloch-Kojève : divine non-existence
Weslati, Hager(2013). In: Ernst Bloch London Symposium, 12 Dec 2013 :London, U.K.