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Welcome to the Desert of the Real

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Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek 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 has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.

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Publisher: Verso Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 24, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781781680315
  • Release date: September 24, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781781680315
  • File size: 1832 KB
  • Release date: September 24, 2014

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English

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek 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 has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.

Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Verso Books

    Kindle Book
    Release date: September 24, 2014

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781781680315
    Release date: September 24, 2014

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781781680315
    File size: 1832 KB
    Release date: September 24, 2014

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English