New PDF release: Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September

By Slavoj Žižek

ISBN-10: 1859844219

ISBN-13: 9781859844212

Within the months after September eleven, titles like 'The finish of the Age of Irony' abound in our media. Liberals and conservatives proclaim the top of the yank vacation from historical past. Now the straightforward video games are over; one may still take aspects. Zizek argues this is often exactly the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of it sounds as if transparent offerings, the genuine choices are so much hidden. Welcome to the wasteland of the Real steps again, complicating the alternatives imposed on us. It proposes that worldwide capitalism is fundamentalist and that the USA was once complicit within the upward thrust of Muslim fundamentalism. It issues to our dreaming in regards to the disaster in different catastrophe video clips earlier than it occurred, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. final yet now not least it analyses the fiasco of the principal leftist reaction to the occasions.
About the series: showing at the first anniversary of the assaults at the global alternate middle and the Pentagon, those sequence of books from Verso current analyses of the U.S., the media, and the occasions surrounding September eleven through Europe's so much stimulating and provocative philosophers. Probing underneath the extent of television observation, political and cultural orthodoxies, and 'rent-a-quote' punditry, Baudrillard, Virilio, and Zizek supply 3 hugely unique and readable debts that function attention-grabbing introductions to the course in their respective initiatives, and as insightful evaluations of the unfolding occasions. This sequence seeks to realize the philosophical which means of September eleven and may go away untouched not one of the winning perspectives presently propagated.

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Here, we ,WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL! 34 (Along the same lines, there is already in Marx the potential even in such an apparently 'reactionary' notion as implicit distinction between 'working class' - a simple cate- 'Russian identity'? ) words for (what appears to us, Westerners) the same term- Is not this opposition ultimately the one, elaborated by one designating its ordinary meaning, the other a more ethi- Alain Badiou, between Event and the positivity of mere Being? cally charged 'absolute' use.

Does not the fairytale storyline (the hero and his endearingly confused comic same also hold for the ideology of liberal democracy? If you helper go to defeat the dragon and save the princess from its (pretend to) take the hegemonic liberal ideology seriously, you clutches) is clothed in jokingly Brechtian 'extraneations' (when cannot be both intelligent and honest: you are either stupid or a the large crowd observes the wedding in the church, it is given corrupted cynic. ', 'Respectful silence!

Failed the test in their misperception of the post-Yugoslav war. 10 to Yuma tells the story of a poor farmer (Van Heflin) The same goes even more for the liberal multiculturalists who who, for 200 dollars which he badly needs in order to save his deplore the rise of New Right violence in Western societies: by cattle from drought, accepts the job of escorting a bandit with a adopting an arrogant patronizing attitude towards the phenom- high price on his head (Glenn Ford) from the hotel where he is ena they condemn, they fail the test.

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