The movies seem to be moving toward the nihilistic themes of Baudrillard's writings, so we'll see what his final opinion after the third movie.
Matrix Revolutions looks like its going to be about an all-out war and mass slaughter, very much like a 19th century Russian political movement that advocated violent revolution as a legitimate means of political reform.
The Matrix Web site has a number of papers written by philosophers, theologians, scientists and others. Of those I've read so far, the one I find most interesting is The Brave New World of the Matrix which draws upon Husserlian phenomenology to discuss the philopsophy of AI. It sounds boring but it's not. If you like that you might want to go on to read some Martin Heidegger.
Unbelieveable to me is that a commercial enterprise (Warner Brothers) is making thinking and philosophy cool again through one of its franchises. I never thought I'd hear about Husserl and Heidegger after I graduated, least of all on a Hollywood-produced movie by the likes of Joel Silver.
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Here is it for those of you who want to read the other papers on the site. Philosophy & The Matrix
The movies seem to be moving toward the nihilistic themes of Baudrillard's writings, so we'll see what his final opinion after the third movie.
Matrix Revolutions looks like its going to be about an all-out war and mass slaughter, very much like a 19th century Russian political movement that advocated violent revolution as a legitimate means of political reform.
The Matrix Web site has a number of papers written by philosophers, theologians, scientists and others. Of those I've read so far, the one I find most interesting is The Brave New World of the Matrix which draws upon Husserlian phenomenology to discuss the philopsophy of AI. It sounds boring but it's not. If you like that you might want to go on to read some Martin Heidegger.
Unbelieveable to me is that a commercial enterprise (Warner Brothers) is making thinking and philosophy cool again through one of its franchises. I never thought I'd hear about Husserl and Heidegger after I graduated, least of all on a Hollywood-produced movie by the likes of Joel Silver.