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Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

By Slavoj Zizek

By Slavoj Zizek

By Slavoj Zizek

By Slavoj Zizek

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    About Welcome to the Desert of the Real

    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.

    About Welcome to the Desert of the Real

    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.

    Also by Slavoj Zizek

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    Also by Slavoj Zizek

    The Day After the Revolution
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    Product Details

    Category: Domestic Politics | 21st Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Verso
    Jan 16, 2013 | 160 Pages | 5 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9781781680193

    Category: Domestic Politics | 21st Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Sep 24, 2014 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9781781680315

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    “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)

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