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> Now is my question: what is the purpose of genereous names dropping (Kant,
Lacan, Freud, etc.) and obscure literary references? Is it:
> a) a sign of conspicuous intellectual consumption;
> b) an exercise in recognition of intellectual property rights (i.e.
> recognizing proper "owners" of different ideas floating around)
> c) an exercise in embourgeoisment (i.e. making palatable to the bourgeois
> audience) of a simple and essentially subversive message of the film in
> question (see the note below)
> d) an example of language usage that obscures rather than reveals one's
> thoughts
> e) all of the above
f) because it's fun
I truly enjoy people getting worried about the jouissance of others, its just so fucking puritan.
ken
ps. the matrix is *not* a marxist movie, despite the fact that you can read m-a-r-x into MAtRiX.