The Plague of Fantasies

The Plague of Fantasies

by Slavoj Zizek
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/05/2020

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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 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.

ISBN:
9781789604351
9781789604351
Category:
Social & political philosophy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-05-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Verso
Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, USA, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London, UK.

His recent books include The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously (2017) and Disparities (Bloomsbury, 2016).

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