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

[Gar Lipow]

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:
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>>> 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.
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