{"product_id":"surrealpolitik-surreality-and-the-national-security-state-9781785359491","title":"Surrealpolitik: Surreality and the National Security State","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Schoneboom\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Zero Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Zero Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur times are not just weird, but literally surreal: we live in a paranoid, increasingly authoritarian culture in which the real, the presumed and the purported are indistinguishable strands of a dense hallucinatory web of mediated spectacles. Surrealpolitik takes up cultural theorist Mark Fisher's challenge to expose capitalist realism's 'realism' as nothing of the sort. To subject the symbolic order to a surrealist mode of inquiry is to transgress taboos, reveal biases and inconsistencies, test assumptions and investigate the extent to which the real is, like our dreams - a fungible projection of our unconscious expectations. The nexus of dreams, hyperreality, paranoia, totalitarianism, terror, art, myth and culture is where realpolitik becomes the surrealpolitik of the title.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zero Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45029742936215,"sku":"9781785359491","price":1115.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781785359491.webp?v=1767896472","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/surrealpolitik-surreality-and-the-national-security-state-9781785359491","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}