Dr Hager Weslati
Faculties, departments 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:
- [email protected]
About
I joined the Kingston School of Art in 2010. Before that, I taught Film and American studies at Lancaster University. I currently lead the MA in Media and Communication and deliver different aspects of the BA Media Content and Communication curriculum.
My teaching is focused on audio media content, video theory, strategic communication and advocacy.
I am editor-in-chief for the Journal for Cultural Research.
My research interests are in the broader field of psychoanalysis and the philosophy of information. My specialism in and contribution to Alexandre Kojève scholarship underpins my interest in archive and collection-based research, and in the analytic method of reconstructing knowledge systems.
Qualifications
- PhD
- FHEA
- SFHEA
Domains
I teach on the Media Content and Communication BA audio-content with focus on short-form podcasting, the video essay as research-based creative practice, PR and advocacy. I lead and deliver the curriculum of the MA Media and Communication, contributing lectures and workshops on nation branding, media ecology, across media-portfolio modules.
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 philosophical manuscripts and diplomatic papers of Alexandre Kojève. Past projects include studies on spatial ordering after the end of history, Kantian moral philosophy and the crisis in 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.
Supervised PhD projects to successful completion include: "Amorocenic baroque: media technological complexification of romantic love" (Chaudhry, 2025); "Incompletion in the work of Alexandre Kojève" (Moore, 2025); "Framing Egyptian foreign policy" (Khalil, 2025); "Neither Devi nor Desh: gendered violence in Indian graphic novels" (Rajbongshi, 2024); "The psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence" (Millar, 2020); "What can one expect from psychoanalysis today" (Moutselou, 2020); "Beyond Partition: Post-Palestinian cinema" (White, 2019); "Twitter, gender and linguistic purism" (Al-Suwailem, 2017); "The intoxication of destruction: Georges Bataille's economy of expenditure and destruction in visual cultures" (Stapleton, 2014).
I currently supervise two PhD projects: "Disenchantment and technologies of the self on Little Red Book (Xiaohongshu, 小红书)" (Xiaoyu Pu), and "the psycho-geography of China's urban villages" (Xin Yo).
I welcome PhD proposals related or relevant to my areas of specialism.
Scholarly affiliations
- Knowledge Exchange Research Institute (KERI) member, Design, Arts and Creative Practice
Publications
Kojève, Kant, and paganism
Weslati, Hager, 2025, Continental Philosophy Review (58), 4pp 671-683, Published
Critique of pure violence: Weil contra Kojeve
Weslati, Hager, 2024, Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (8), 1pp 46-62, Published
Tyranny and boredom
Weslati, Hager, 2023, Journal for Cultural Research (27), 2pp 172-188, Published
«Предположив, что истина есть женщина» : КОнцеПтУАЛьные ПеРСОнАжи КОжеВА и иХ РОЛь В егО СиСтеме ЗнАния = "Supposing that truth is a woman": КОнцеПтУАЛьные ПеРСОнАжи КОжеВА и иХ РОЛь В егО СиСтеме ЗнАния = 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, Published
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), 1pp 200-216, Accepted/In press
Unaccented beat: positional politics and the enigma of visibility in The Stuart Hall Project
Weslati, Hager, 2018, African and Black Diaspora (11), 3pp 293-308, Published
The Inexistent in the Ontology of Alexandre Kojève
Weslati, Hager, 2017, China Media Research (13), 4pp 48-56, Published
Kojeve's letter to Stalin
Weslati, Hager, 2014, Radical Philosophy (184)pp 7-18, Published
La pensée du desert: the paradox of 'theory' and the narrative of boom and bust in cultural studies
Weslati, Hager, 2010, British Journal of Haematology (16)pp 47-62, Published
Kant
Weslati, Hager and Kojève, Alexandre (2024). London, U.K.: [Published]
Hegel, logic and speculation
(2019). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury Publishing) [Published]
[Translation] Notion of authority by Alexandre Kojeve
Weslati, Hager (2014). London, U.K.: [Published]
Introduction: speculation and hermeneutics of effectual reality
Pagano, Maurizio and Weslati, Hager (2019). In: Bubbio, Paolo Diego, De Cesaris, Alessandro, Pagano, Maurizio, Weslati, Hager, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 1-14 [Published]
The silence of logik: Hegel after Kojeve
Weslati, Hager (2019). In: Pagano, Maurizio, Bubbio, Diego, De Cesaris, Alessandro, Weslati, Hager, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 217-232 [Published]
Travel in disguise: on travel writing and cultural governance
Weslati, Hager (2009). In: Brisson, Ulrike, Schweizer, Bernard, (eds.), Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.:pp 85-109 [Published]
Deserts in literary and religious fundamentalism
Weslati, Hager (2008). In: Stierstorfer, Klaus, Kern-Stähler, Annette, (eds.), Heidelberg: Germany: Universitätsverlag Winterpp 187-212 [Published]
Kojève's Sophia: bored girls and the philosopher in the striped pyjamas
Weslati, Hager(2021). [Published]
Philosophie et politique: Qu'est-ce que l'autorite? = Kojeve, philosophy and politics : what is authority?
Palma, Massimo and Weslati, Hager(2019). [Published]
Silicon Valley's sovereign individuals and the rise of occult politics
Weslati, Hager(2018). [Published]
The Aesopian challenge
Weslati, Hager(2018). [Published]
The question of symbolization and the philosophy of the fourth subject after modern physics
Weslati, Hager(2016). [Published]
The polyhedron of social inequality, social change and media events
Weslati, Hager(2016). [Published]
Les campus engages de Tunis a Rio: l'insurgence de l'anti-ethnologie du « dehors » dans l'enseignement de Michel Foucault
Weslati, Hager(2015). [Published]
Bloch-Kojève: divine non-existence
Weslati, Hager(2013). [Published]