The Plague Of Fantasies (2009)

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The Plague of Fantasies (Second Edition) - Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek
Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: pdf
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Year: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781844673032,1844673030
Time Added: Wed Feb 13 2019 13:57:08 GMT+0300 (MSK)
Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: pdf
Size: 12 mb
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Edition: Second Edition
Pages: 343
Id: 414392
Time Modified: Wed Feb 13 2019 13:57:08 GMT+0300 (MSK)
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Bibtex: "Slavoj Zizek",
"The Plague of Fantasies (Second Edition)"
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Zizek takes on the relations between fantasy and ideology, and the deluge of pseudo-concrete images surrounding 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. 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.