The Plague of Fantasies
The Plague of Fantasies By Slavoj Žižek
2008 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1844673030 | EPUB | 1 MB
2008 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1844673030 | EPUB | 1 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 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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