ABSTRACT

Seeking highbrow justification for this frivolity, the Wachowskis put Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation in one shot. If there is a reference to Sun Ra I have not caught it but apparently nothing trumps an obscure black jazz artist like a European intellectual (especially for black academics). Using Structuralist chic to justify a $60 million teenagers’ action movie-instead of analyzing and clarifying the way politics affect people’s daily interactions-may be trendy but in the end it’s also trash. Or to paraphrase debutant Cornel: You don’t have to know shit to support the Hollywood system.