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The Plague of Fantasies
Slavoj Žižek
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Description for The Plague of Fantasies
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 384.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844673032
SKU
V9781844673032
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About Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less ... Read more
Reviews for The Plague of Fantasies
The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades.
Terry Eagleton Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism.
Times of London
Zizek unfolds in this text a theory of the workings of postmodern ideology that is often breathtaking in its ... Read more
Terry Eagleton Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism.
Times of London
Zizek unfolds in this text a theory of the workings of postmodern ideology that is often breathtaking in its ... Read more