Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
Slavoj Žižek
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Paperback. Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, i ek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11. Series: Radical Thinkers. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; HPX; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 234.
Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy ... Read more
Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Radical Thinkers
Condition
New
Weight
235g
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781680193
SKU
V9781781680193
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About Slavoj Žižek
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
Fierce brilliance ... scintillating.
Steven Poole
Guardian (in praise of Living in the End Times)
Never ceases to dazzle.
Brian Dillon
Daily Telegraph (in praise of Living in the End Times)
Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard.
Observer (in ... Read more
Steven Poole
Guardian (in praise of Living in the End Times)
Never ceases to dazzle.
Brian Dillon
Daily Telegraph (in praise of Living in the End Times)
Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard.
Observer (in ... Read more