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Zizek and the Media

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4368-7
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192 pages
December 2010, Polity
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"An eloquent and compelling insight into the worldview of ?i?ek and his contribution to the fields of medi and cultural analysis … It is nothing less than a myth-busting exposition of how, in the age of media saturation, we are directed to live and perceive."
Media, Culture & Society

"Ask not for whom theory waits, motionless - it waits for all of us in Paul Taylor's excellent Zizek and the Media."
Media Education Research Journal

"Taylor does a superb job of showing how electrifying and profound the media current that flows through Zizek's work really is."
Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo

"Paul Taylor's Zizek and the Media provides a thorough introduction to the paradoxes and subtleties of Slavoj Zizek's thought, and at the same time it articulates a compelling theory of how the contemporary media functions in unforeseen ways. Taylor's originality derives from his vigilant attention to forms. He is the first to explain fully how the idiosyncratic form in which Zizek presents his philosophy emerges out of its content. And in the process, he grasps what makes Zizek's such a penetrating critique of our media universe. Taylor's book goes beyond being a book about Zizek and becomes one that enacts Zizek's mode of thinking on its readers."
Todd McGowan, University of Vermont

"All jokes aside, this is a seriously serious book. Zizek is one of the most media-savvy of all contemporary philosophers, and medium in the form of the concrete universal is one of his most important concepts. Paul Taylor does a terrific job putting together these two sides of Zizek to produce a provocative parallax view."
Rex Butler, University of Queensland

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