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We’re goin in. One more time. And this time we’re facing some pretty mean programs. Cynicism, Obfuscation, and Postmodernist despair. Plus the usual obnoxious bunch of really ruthless Agents, who permanently insist on Conformity or Deletion. And just in case you were hoping to make it back, they’ve reconfigured the culture so there are hardly any phone booths left. We’re gonna need guns. Lots of guns. ANd an endless supply of logic, humor, disobedience, and argumentative tenacity. The extant members of the ancient crew are still on board, along with some new recruits, freshly located, unplugged and debugged. Are you with us? You’ve already made th choice. Now you have to know WHY you made it.
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I have read nearly all the Matrix books & seen all the movies.
I have also been studying this series for three yrs now. The part that has puzzled me for so long is why & how a name can like some one so much that they would die to hold on to that. In Neo & Trinitys case they had that, I was trying to know that. I was also trying to know if the one you loved died or “gave up on you” how would we be. Is like a pathetic imotion or what? Which is it? One day I understood when that person came back in my life. Who was permanently there when I needed that person. The one I am proud to say I am that persons. But his thoughtless words broke my heart, not knowing that my heart was bleeding before him. I mistakened hm for a name more like myself & not so hatful our family tree was never soposed to be hatful it dosn’t matter any more he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish he’s across the atlantic & I am here we can’t go back again. I just wanted to give him a second chance to choose who he really wanted to be with before it’s to late. I just want our family tree back a few more kids are welcome I just know he deserves more than that. WE want to go home. I loved absolutly LOVED my words are cold & flat compared to how I truly feel. Its like one third of me was taken.
If you were to die in 2 hours who is the last person you would want to be beside you?
I know now how Neo probably felt after Trinity was gone. I really mocked that kind life once said how pathetic it was give me a break etc. I take it all back. I am broken but yet it is all a part of life it was a lesson to be learned. But at such a young age perhaps my fate is leading me to somthing far greater than I can see or imagine. Like the prediction said “We can never see past the choices we don’t know.” I judge that.
You are still fantastic in our eyes and will permanently be flawless.
To: Major Steven P. Foster
Your Like forever. I will permanently like you.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a sequel to an early book “The Matrix and Philosophy” and like most sequels, its not nearly as excellent.
The only essay, I thought was really excellent was Nick Bostrom on whether we are in a Matrix. That one by the way is available to read on his website which is well worth a visit.
Some I felt were trying to hard to push their thoughts thought the movie for example one about Islam and the matrix. Well the movie came from the Wachowski brothers both who are Jews although they were certainly influenced by Christian ideals too, I doubt that they know much about Islam. The only reason I can reflect its the article there is to sell books to Muslims too.
Overall I was most disappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve written an literary review of MORE MATRIX AND PHILOSOPHY, and it might be unethical to take in on line what is scheduled to be published in that review. Here, though, I’d like to stress a point I couldn’t get into much in a brief literary review.
Slavoj Zizek’s “Reloaded Revolutions” essay in MORE MATRIX is, in one part, let’s say for now, troublesome, problematic. I’ll quote the whole passage, and readers may find stronger words later. Certainly, though, there’s a problem here with the editing of the essay. Minimally it’s a problem with editing. Here’s the entire passage. The ellipsis mark … is in the original; nothing has been deleted.
“But, in REVOLUTIONS, is Neo really a Christ figure? It may look so. At the very end of his duel with Smith, he turns into (another) Smith so that, when he dies, Smith (all the Smiths) is (are) ruined…. But, a closer look renders visible a key difference: Smith is a proto-Jewish figure, an obscene intruder who multiplies like rats, who runs amok and disturbs the harmony of Humans and Matrix-Machines, so that his destruction enables a (temporary) class treaty. What dies with Neo is this Jewish intruder who brings conflict and imbalance. In Christ, on the contrary, God himself becomes man so that, with the death of Christ, this man (ecce homo), God (of beyond) himself also dies. The right ‘Christological’ version of the MATRIX trilogy would thus entail a radically different scenario: Neo should have been a Matrix program rendered human, a direct human embodiment of the Matrix, so that, when he dies, the Matrix destroys itself” (208).
Zizek is right that a more Christ-like Neo would incarnate the God-Machine Matrix, building Neo more specifically the Son of the Architect, maybe with the Prediction as some sort of Mary figure. But Smith as “a proto-Jewish figure, an obscene intruder who multiplies like rats”?
Zizek uses here the rat image from (for the example I know) the Nazi propaganda film DER EWIGE JUDE (THE ETERNAL JEW, 1940); he seems to combine it with a pre-Vatican II image of Jews as the _alazones_-outsiders demanding too much-in the Passion. But what is the tone here? Is Zizek carelessly passing along such bigotry, which then slips past his editor? Or is it Zizek’s considered opinion that «The Jew» is “an obscene intruder who multiplies like rats”?
I’m a life-member of the ACLU and will defend-though hardly to the death-Zizek’s right to prompt bigotted or even anti-Semitic views. But in ethically reliable writing and in philosophical writing above all, politically loaded thoughts should be expressed directly and as an arguable proposition; they shouldn’t be snuck in. Bigotted or racist thoughts certainly should never be just snuck in, but open directly, so they can be challenged directly.
William Irwin, the editor of MORE MATRIX slipped up terribly here. Or he and Slavoj Zizek did far worse than slip up.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book complements the thinkings exposed in “The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real”. “More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded” presents new perspectives and readings about the complex web of interpretations. The book is composed by 16 articles of different researchers. Some articles are critics talking about strong and weak aspects. A disapointing aspect is the book not to deep the point fundamentals of “Matrix Reloaded” neither “Matrix Revolutions”.
An article is more special when chat about the Neo’s Journey as a Cosmologic Journey throught an Islamic Religion Perspective. Additional article makes reference also to the muslim, also appealing.
I’m finishing a book relating matrix and business. I reflect that the book was useful but it’s more a complement of new discussions open in last two Chapters of Matrix Trilogy.
I want to find a name interested to chat about the relationship between Matrix and business. If you are interest write to jrezende@digi.com.br
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I don’t know why you would write a book about a movie and spend the first few essays trashing it! It’s stupid. Who stands in the book store and says “Hey, I want to read a book about how much some idiot doesn’t like a movie!”?
Basically, there are terrible essays by some Marxist (they tend to not be palatable anyways), some looney anti-violence in media people that want to blame the Wachowskis for every nut job that doesn’t have a grip on the difference between fiction and reality (despite the fact that the last two movies show the essential ineffacacy of violence as a problem solver, with the trilogy ending with a laying down of the sword), some lame Platonic explination of why sequels suck (the gist is, when things are hackneyed, things get better or worse. Oh my god, what incredible non-obvious insight!), and the completely arrogant Zizek, who LITERALLY cut and pastes two paragraphs from his previously published essay. And who I honestly believes trashes the movies simply because they are not made by such pretentious academics as himself. Obviously, these films haven’t redefined the philosophical landscape, but they have brought interest and illustration of many appealing philosophical thoughts to many people. Perhaps that is beneath Mr. Zizek, but isn’t that the whole point of fiction in the first place? To inspire and encourage? These films also present a synthesis of the best worldview that two well educated people have come up with. Yes, these films are intricate and seemingly contradictory. But guess what, so are the answers to life!
Nevertheless, there are some really excellent essays in the book. The Neitzchean interpretation essay is incredible, the essay on Baudrillard is very excellent, as well as the essay on Socrates.
My advice: buy the brilliant book by Matt Lawrence first, and save yourself having to wade through the self-vital pretentious babblings of pseudo-intellectuals to find the few people who really took the time to know these movies.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5