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The Plague of Fantasies
The complex relations between fantasy and ideology in the current epoch are explored with Zizek's characteristic brio.
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
November 1st 1997
by Verso
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There were excerpts from this book which I found absolutely enthralling. There was a point, however, when I refused to read it any longer because of the verbose, self-indulgent language. It simply got ridiculous. I tried to defend it to Mr. Connell but, as he said, I can't imagine what editor would let language like that get published. Some of the philosophical commentary was interesting, but it was overshadowed by the linguistic ego which, frankly, ruined the book for me.
Oh, Zizek, you wonderfully nutty Slovenian! It's hard not to love Zizek with his playful, pop culture centered philosophy. At times I think he has a tendency to be a little disorienting, "What is the truth about human sexuality...? Hegel reference, Lacan reference, Hitchcok reference, Soviet-era joke..." But beyond the mere seductive charm of his play, there is a real glimmer of truth or a challenge to us.
Maybe not the best summation of Plague of Fantasies I could come up w...more
Maybe not the best summation of Plague of Fantasies I could come up w...more
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Pertama-tama sblm mengulas buku ini hrs disinggung terlebih dulu siapa Slavoj Žižek, yang namanya kian tenar dalam pemikiran filsafat radikal belakangan. Žižek adalah filsuf Slovenia, penggila Lacan dan sin...more
Pertama-tama sblm mengulas buku ini hrs disinggung terlebih dulu siapa Slavoj Žižek, yang namanya kian tenar dalam pemikiran filsafat radikal belakangan. Žižek adalah filsuf Slovenia, penggila Lacan dan sin...more
Only gets three stars because so much of it is virtually unreadable but this guy is a post-modern superstar. Check out this passage. The ontology of shit.
In a famous scene from Buñuel's Phantom of Liberty, the roles of eating and excreting are inverted: people sit at toilets around a table, chatting pleasantly, and when they want to eat, sneak away to a small room. So, as a supplement to Lévi-Strauss, one is tempted to propose that shit can also serve as a matière-à-penser: the thre...more
In a famous scene from Buñuel's Phantom of Liberty, the roles of eating and excreting are inverted: people sit at toilets around a table, chatting pleasantly, and when they want to eat, sneak away to a small room. So, as a supplement to Lévi-Strauss, one is tempted to propose that shit can also serve as a matière-à-penser: the thre...more
i'm so excited. i've never read zizek before. it's very dense, so only like 20 pages into it, but each of those pages has been a delight. great great food for thought. ha ha, the review on the cover says it's "the best intellectual high since anti-oedipus." intellectual high is a great way to put it (and a great term in general, no?).
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Most of the book is a struggle but the sections on the internet and the displaced subject are amazing. I mean he really nails it and tries his damndest to make everything crystal clear.
best for intro to his psychoanalytic perspective
I love Zizek's sense of humor, but I'll admit I don't know as much Kant and Hegel as I should to fully engage Zizek.
Lacan, Hitchcock (of course), Buñuel's l'object de desire, and anecdotes oozing off pages of brilliance... needs another read.
everything you need to know about your life.
kicks me in the c-u-n-t.
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.
He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Sl...more
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He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Sl...more
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