7 Ekim 2017 Cumartesi

utopia

Big Lebowski, American Dream, Nihilism: the flying rug

questions: what is a good life?



 Interstellar and the big escape

questions: when is/was there/will a good life (be) ? how do you attain it?


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Dylan Thomas


 The Matrix and Anachronism 

who owns the good life?

 Bullet-time in simulation city: revisiting Baudrillard and The matrix by way of the "real 1999"

 Baudrillard: The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment. This is a serious flaw. The radical illusion of the world is a problem faced by all great cultures, which they have solved through art and symbolization. What we have invented, in order to support this suffering, is a simulated real, which henceforth supplants the real and is its final solution, a virtual universe from which everything dangerous and negative has been expelled. And The Matrix is undeniably part of that. Everything belonging to the order of dream, utopia and phantasm is given expression, “realized.” We are in the uncut transparency. The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

 The Matrix Decoded:  Le Nouvel Observateur Interview With Jean Baudrillard1

Captain Fantastic

questions: who makes a good life? person? family? community? society?

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