[lbo-talk] Avatar: The Exquisite Horror of The Strange Stranger

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 8 13:25:24 PST 2010


At 01:14 PM 1/8/2010, dredmond at efn.org wrote:


> > Cameron has always been a proponent of Hollywood anti-capitalism:
>
>It wasn't so much anti-capitalism as the trench-solidarity of the
>military-industrial complex.

I think he's saying Hollywood anti-capitalism is not anti-capitalism at all. Here's the money shot:


>What is foreclosed in the opposition between a predatory
>technologised capitalism and a primitive organicism, evidently, is
>the possibility of a modern, technologised anti-capitalism. It is in
>presenting this pseudo-opposition that Avatar functions as an
>ideological symptom.



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