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[[Image:Welcome.To.The.Desert.Of.The.Real.jpg|215px300px|right]]In the months after [[September 11]], titles like “The End of the Age of Irony” abound in our [[media]]. [[Liberals ]] and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from [[history]]. Now the easy [[games ]] are over; one should take sides.

[[Zizek ]] argues that this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the [[real ]] alternatives are most hidden. ''Welcome to the Desert of [[the Real]]'' steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that [[global ]] [[capitalism ]] is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim [[fundamentalism]]. It points to our dreaming [[about ]] the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the [[tragedy ]] has been used to legitimize [[torture]]. Last but not least it [[analyses ]] the fiasco of the predominant [[leftist ]] response to the events.

|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Welcome to the Desert of the Real|Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates]]'''''. New York: Verso. October 2002, Paperback, 96 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], ISBN: 1859844219. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859844219/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859844219/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859844219/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859844219/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859844219/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>