Slavoj Žižek is a globally renowned philosopher and cultural critic. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He is the author of several books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Parallax View, Living in the End Times and Heaven in Disorder.

Žižek has appeared at many HowTheLightGetsIn festivals. You can watch his debate with renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari from our Hay 2022 festival, entitled Nature: Friend or Foe?, here.