Name: Welcome to the Desert of the Real!
ISBN: 9781859844212

Slavoj Žižek

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Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, Zizek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11.

Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Welcome to the Desert of the Real!

Gavin

Žižek may be the most high-variance writer since Nietzsche. Very occasionally he writes beautiful, thoughtful pieces and I am shocked and bewildered to find myself agreeing. The rest of the time he writes 1) edgy shit about how liberals are the real enemy and 2) complete nonsense about already dubious writers, leaking film theory and psychoanalysis into journalism, like raw sewage pouring into a ditch. There is some value in mere provocation. It is easily eclipsed.

This one includes a sadly memorable passage likening an intentional plane crash to a dildo with a camera on the end.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real! Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates