From: "Clare O'Farrell" <c_ofarrell-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: what, so no one's yet discussed the matrix?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:23:14 PDT


Gary

I can't remember whether this message actually got through to the list 
before. My apologies if I have already sent it.

>I'm surprised no one has yet brought up the film The Matrix.

Thanks for mentioning it Gary - I had been meaning to mention it for a while 
but kept on forgetting!!

Surprising
>erudite for such a film, one of the first things that Keanu Reeve's
>character does is pull a book off the shelf, Simulacra and Simulation.

I loved that - and it didn't do anything obvious like have Baudrillard's 
name on the cover.

>If any of you have seen it, I'd be curious how many references were found,

There was a quick couple of seconds of Patrick MacGoohan's tv series _The 
Prisoner_ (the old lady in the appartment which they rush through at one 
stage is watching this) I have argued before on this list that this series 
is in my view is a televised version of _Discipline and Punish_

There are also references in the film to the brains in vats concept found in 
Dennett's book 'The mind's I' (I think that's the title), some references to 
Nietzsche etc.

I must go and see this film again - I really enjoyed it - nice to see a 
mainstream Hollywood film with something approaching a plot and some ideas!

Clare

Clare O'Farrell
email:c_ofarrell-AT-hotmail.com
web page: http://www.qut.edu.au/edu/cpol/foucault/


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