Locke, Hobbes, and Zombies

Paul Cantor and Jesse Walker discuss apocalyptic narratives.

Last week Paul Cantor spoke at George Mason University about "The Economics of Apocalypse: Flying Saucers, Alien Invasions, and the Walking Dead"; I moderated the event. If you missed your chance to see the show live, don't fret; a video is now online:

Comments

[Lady Bertrum]

Loved, loved, loved this lecture, Jesse. Especially the comments about Mars Attacks!. Coming from a long line of trailer dwelling white trash, I like to think we could save the world.

[Lady Bertrum]

Did he not mention The Matrix? Technology as the alien overcoming Leviathan to be challenged by a small group of individuals. And, our inability to even recognize we are cogs within - fear of technology, globalization, and lost local control all in one package.

The sequels were awful because they didn't continue on with that theme and created a new human leviathan (Zion) and introduced too much mysticism.

[Corning]

What?

The first one was the one with all the mysticism...it was the second one that introduced "our inability to even recognize we are cogs within"

We did not know that neo the one was only one in a long line of ones and only existed as a stop gap work around for a bug in in the Matrix.

You got the movies completely switched around.

[Corning]

Do they gambol?

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