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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.
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The Plague of Fantasies, Slavoj Žižek
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- The Plague of Fantasies
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Slavoj Žižek
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1844673030
- ISBN13
- 9781844673032
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Political Science & Politics, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Society, Scientific Theories, Psychoanalysis
- First published
- 1997
- Original title
- The Plague of Fantasies
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- 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.