This link has been bookmarked by 14 people . It was first bookmarked on 01 Apr 2008, by Nathan Rein.
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Peter KittlePiece by Zizek in the days following 9/11/01 that shows amazing prescience--but relates in interesting ways to the need for a philosophy to be in place so that "bad" (for lack of a better term) decisions can be avoided.
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It is when we watched on TV screen the two WTC towers collapsing, that it became possible to experience the falsity of the "reality TV shows": even if this shows are "for real," people still act in them - they simply play themselves. The standard disclaimer in a novel ("characters in this text are a fiction, every resemblance with the real life characters is purely contingent") holds also for the participants of the reality soaps: what we see there are fictional characters, even if they play themselves for the real.
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Nathan ReinAnother Žižek essay, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," from 2001. Also on my reading list. Looks more closely at the images of violence and devastation and their role in the popular, post-9/11 imagination.
!toread 9-11 commentary criticism del.icio.us_import film politics popular_culture psychology violence
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