Slavoj Žižek (1949) is a communist philosopher and political activist. He received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 1981 and from the Université Paris VIII in 1985. He has been working as a senior researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, and as co-director at the International Centre for Humanities, Birkbeck University, University of London. Žižek is known for his reading of Hegel through the theory of Lacan, a materialist interpretation of Christianity, and a communist critique of liberal democracy. He is a widely translated and globally read author who has written dozens of books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology (Verso, 1989) and more recently Hegel in a Wired Brain (Bloomsbury, 2021). He has also made documentary films (Less Than Nothing, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology) and written numerous commentaries in world media.