[lbo-talk] The power of poetry: vampire squid

[Dennis Redmond]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Charles Turner <vze26m98 at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:15 AM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity
>
> Indebted to the "Aliens" movie franchise, though, no?

Yep, and that's why it's brilliant -- turning a fairly neoconservative
Hollywood franchise into a scorching critique of neoliberalism. Kind
of making the whole political unconscious thing more, well, conscious.

-- DRR