[FRA:] Zizek & Koenigsberg on The Matrix, Human Batteries & the Symbolic Order

[Ralph Dumain]

And both the filmmakers and Baudrillard are completely full of shit.

At 03:43 PM 1/14/2008, James Rovira wrote:
>Neh, the Wachowskis required all cast members to read Baudrillard's
>_Simulacra and Simulation_ and cited one or two other works as
>specific influences.  It's not hard to find the philosophical
>underpinnings, and Zizek could have identified these even earlier than
>2003 with a five minute Google search.
>
>I agree the film is philosophically naive, though, and Baudrillard
>said the filmmakers misunderstood him.  There is an original and a
>"real" world in the film: Baudrillard's point in SS is that there is
>no longer an original.
>
>Jim R