The Plague of Fantasies (Essential Zizek)

by Slavoj Zizek

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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.
  • ISBN10 1844673030
  • ISBN13 9781844673032
  • Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 17 November 1997)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Verso Books