The Plague of Fantasies

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 Žižek: 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.