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

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 18:33:35 PST 2010


On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:


> 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.

Which, historically speaking, is all topsy-turvey, no? Forward with industrialization and all that.

-- Andy



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