The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek

The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek

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This volume posits that the current epoch is plagued by fantasies. There is an intensifying antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of people's lives - whether in the form of digitalization or market relations - and the deluge of pseudo-concrete images which surround people.

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The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek

This volume posits that the current epoch is plagued by fantasies. There is an intensifying antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of people's lives - whether in the form of digitalization or market relations - and the deluge of pseudo-concrete images which surround people.
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
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ISBN 13 9781859841938
ISBN 10 1859841937
Title The Plague of Fantasies
Author Slavoj Zizek
Series Wo Es War
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Verso Books
Year published 1997-11-17
Number of pages 254
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