Simon Hajdini

Simon Hajdini is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, where he teaches social and political philosophy. He is the author of three books and several articles in critical theory, political economy, hyperstructuralism and psychoanalysis. His latest book is What's That Smell? A Philosophy of the Olfactory (MIT Press, 2024). His present book project — Hungry Mouths, Idle Hands — argues for an interpretation in which hunger can be taken as a philosophical opening with wide-ranging consequences for understanding modern capitalist society, the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality, and the fate of the aesthetically sublime in the age of the trivial.