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

Gar Lipow gar.lipow at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 10:12:03 PST 2011


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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Been a long time since I watched Aliens. The bad guys (the ones who kept taking chances with these monsters) were in the first movies were top military who wanted to weaponize them, and subsequently big corps and corrupt pols/mil in bed with them. Is my memory deceiving me there, or am I just forgetting another trope that went with it? If I remember right it was a populist narrative with all the flaws that go with certain types of liberal populism. -- Facebook: Gar Lipow  Twitter: GarLipow Grist Blog: http://www.grist.org/member/1598 Static page: http://www.nohairshirts.com



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