The Plague of Fantasies - Paperback

Product detail - Author: Slavoj Zizek | ISBN-13: 9781844673032 | Format: Paperback Publisher: Verso Books | Publication Date: 2009-01-01 | Pages: 272 | Product Dimensions: 134 x 199 x 27mm | Weight: 368g |

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 A iA ek: 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.