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The Plague of Fantasies

By Slavoj Žižek

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2008
ISBN
9781844673032
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
470 kB (481303 bytes)
Series
The Essential Žižek
Pages
320\0
Time added
2023-08-15 17:43:30

Description

Modern audiovisual media have spawned a ‘plague of fantasies’, electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions—whether those of digital technology or the speculative market.Into this arena, enters Žižek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references—explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter—to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives.

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