04 May 2006

WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL/Slavoj Zizek

WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL
By Slavoj Zizek, 15 September 2001

The ultimate American paranoiac fantasy is that of an individual living in a small idyllic Californian city, a consumerist paradise, who suddenly starts to suspect that the world he lives in is a fake, a spectacle staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all people around him are effectively actors and extras in a gigantic show...

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