The Plague of Fantasies

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The Plague of Fantasies is written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Verso Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1789604354 (ISBN 10) and 9781789604351 (ISBN 13).

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 Zizek: 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.