The Plague of Fantasies (The Essential Zizek)

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 abstractionswhether those of digital technology or the speculative market. Into this arena enters iek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural referencesexplicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenterto demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives.