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The Plague of Fantasies

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Plague of Fantasies

By Slavoj Zizek

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About the book

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 Car...Show more

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9781844673032

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

The Plague of Fantasies

Format

Paperback

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