Verso

Plague of Fantasies

$26.95

Verso

Plague of Fantasies

$26.95
  • Description

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 Carpenter—to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives.

Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso Books
Page Count: 320pp
Size: 5 x 8
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: January 5, 2009
ISBN: 978-1844673032