Four Modes of Gothic dissimulation and a will-to-ignorance

*Gettin' all Žižek on your medieval whatever.

http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/01/04/the-politics-of-climate-change-the-impossibility-of-conservatism-and-the-role-of-the-imaginary/

"Žižek argues that "the dominant ideology is mobilising mechanisms of dissimulation and self-deception which include a will to ignorance"…

For Žižek, transformations are at work which call forth such a doubled effect:

"If this sounds apocalyptic, one can only retort that we live in apocalyptic times. It is easy to see...