I cant be a fan or an enemy; I havent seen it. But what's the connection with this link, Chris?
Its terminology(ies) numbed my poor old brain....
Doug
On 2011-09-07, at 9:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> I am not a fan of Avatar, the film... in fact I am opposed to the reactionary polictical poetics of the film and simmer in anger at it's dismal promise of demise; it's homophobic rant!
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> Here we have the mad destruction of their exhausted bodies and monstrous anonymity, yet who wants to return to pre-capitalist territorialities? The film /Avatar/ is capitalist disavowal (it plays at being primitives via an elaborate techno-spectacle)
> From: http://totalassaultonculture.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/acclerationism/
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> It is nice to find agreement. As to opposing Nick Land, it seems rather a waste to oppose a symptom in the name of an entire illness? (Land deconstructionism reconfigures a siding with Kantian reforms without critique. Critique; always Kant's failure.)
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