Supposedly a critique of capitalism in four parts. Zizek makes some interesting points but I find them rather overwhelmed by terminology and ruminations based on cultural theory a la Lacan et cie. Theoretical ramblings, polemical asides and divagations into current hot issues make it hard to follow his critical threads.
Maybe if you have background in Marxist theory, psychoanalysis and postmodernism this book would be approachable.
Comments about Zizek (and even more so about Lacan) are very mixed - from brilliance to charlatanism.
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