Hager Weslati

Hager Weslati is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, London, within the School of Creative and Cultural Industries and the Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media. She serves as the Course Director for the MA in Media and Communication program and has been a core faculty member since 2010. Her academic career includes teaching positions at Lancaster University, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tunis, and visiting senior research fellowships at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the New School, New York.

Dr. Weslati holds a PhD and has Fellowships of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA and SFHEA). Her primary research interests span contemporary philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of information, psychoanalysis, and political communication. She has published extensively on Alexandre Kojève's work, exploring his manuscripts and their ideological translations in Western and Eastern philosophical thought around concepts of authority, legality, and power. Her scholarship also addresses spatial ordering after the end of history, theology after modern physics, 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.

Weslati's scholarly output reveals a consistent interdisciplinary engagement that bridges continental philosophy, media studies, and cultural criticism. Her articles demonstrate particular attention to how philosophical concepts manifest in digital media, political communication, and contemporary artistic practices, with strong emphasis on Kojèvian philosophy, Hegelian dialectics, and contemporary political theory. Her work shows increasing interest in the intersection of psychoanalysis and new media technologies, particularly examining manifestations of ordinary psychosis in AI systems.

Dr. Weslati actively supervises PhD students working on diverse projects including the semiotics of social media, the metaphysics of Palestinian cinema, the algorithm of authority, and manifestations of ordinary psychosis in AI and new media technologies. Her teaching portfolio includes BA and MA modules on media narratives, the podcasting industry, media philosophy, the psychoanalysis of social media, software studies, media archaeology, and strategic political communication, reflecting her commitment to integrating theoretical frameworks with contemporary media practices.