Welcome to the Desert of the Real

[Dave Monroe]

And here's one with something to upset everyone ...

Zizek, Slavoj.  Welcome to the Desesrt of the Real.
   London and New York: Verso, 2002.

"In the months after September 11, titles like 'The
End of the Age of Irony' abound in our media. Liberals
and conservatives proclaim the end of the American
holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one
should take sides.

"Zizek argues that 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
analyses the fiasco of the predominant leftist
response to the events."

http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/xyz-titles/zizek_desert_real.shtml

Helluva book so far.  Okay, now on to ...

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