The Plague of Fantasies (Essential Zizek) (The Essential Zizek) by Slavoj Zizek
English | ISBN: 1844673030 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2009 | 0.5 Mb
English | ISBN: 1844673030 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2009 | 0.5 Mb
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 Zizek: 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.