Quotes from book
Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Name: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Author: Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek

Welcome to the Desert of the Real is a 2002 book by Slavoj Žižek. A Marxian and Lacanian analysis of the ideological and political responses to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Zizek's study incorporates various psychoanalytic, postmodernist, biopolitical, and universalist influences into a Marxist dialectical framework.

“[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe — the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus."”

Slavoj Žižek book Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (London: Verso, 2002, ISBN 1-859-84421-9), p. 16