The Plague of Fantasies
by
Slavoj Zizek
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Essential Zizek
ISBN-10
1844673030
ISBN-13
9781844673032
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 5th, 2009
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
274 grams
Dimensions
19.90 x 13.40 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
PhilosophyStates of consciousness
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Explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of our lives - whether through digitalization or the market - and the deluge of pseudo-concrete images which surround us.
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.<br>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.
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