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Harari and Žižek warn of a post-nature world

The two thinkers share a stage at HowTheLightGetsIn

3rd June 2022
| Managing editor for the LSE's British Politics and Policy blog. He was previously the senior editor for the online magazine of the Institute of Art and Ideas.
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On a fine summer day In Hay, at the packed main stage of HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s biggest philosophy festival, Yuval Noah Harari and Slavoj Žižek appeared together on a panel for the first time. Nature was on the agenda. Is it an existential threat to us, or a source we can continue using freely to improve our lives? It’s not nature we should be worried about, both thinkers agreed. It’s what comes next: a world post-nature. Watch the video debate here.

 

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Yuval Noah Harari and Slavoj Žižek debate the nature of nature. Günes Taylor hosts.

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3rd June 2022

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Steve Carey 4 June 2022

Given the context, I’m wondering what the author's phrase 'nature on its own' means. Isn’t the whole point that nature is all?

Loretta Morandin 4 June 2022

Anna Lazou I think it is an appearance, you could google "HowTheLightGetsIn Yuval Noah Harari Slavoj Žižek videos" and see if there is a recording online.

Anna Lazou 3 June 2022

I want to read Harari and Zizek's article; what do I have to do?