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Adam Gopnik and Baudrillard too...

On: Philosophy, Reality and The Matrix

Last week's New Yorker had a piece by Adam Gopnik tracing the philosophical roots of the Matrix: apparently the phrase 'desert of the real' is from Baudrillard (and he might even be thinking about suing for a screen credit!)--and in the first film the book Neo hides his data discs in is Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation'

[The piece was online last week, but now it's nowhere to be found.]