1. Research Library

        Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions in the Mis(use) of a Notion

        Slavoj Žižek

        London: Verso 2001

        ISBN 1859844251

      1. Puts forth the claim that totalitarianism has been instrumentalized to maintain liberal democratic hegemony and argues, in a characteristically inflammatory way, that the purest totalitarian form today can be found in the notion of ‘consensus’ so prized in democracies. See in particular his scathing critique of cultural studies in chapter 5.