Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj I Ek (University of London)

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English

Verso Books
16 January 2013

Social & political philosophy; Popular philosophy; Terrorism, armed struggle

Series: Radical Thinkers

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 has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.

By: Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj I Ek (University of London)
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 232g
ISBN: 9781781680193
ISBN 10: 1781680191
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 16 January 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many 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) Â iÂ ek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard. --Observer (in praise of Living in the End Times)