Ant-Man: Unemployed ex-con has no future except as pawn of rich scientist fighting other rich scientist. Man as the ant of capital.
Straight Outta Compton: Black class war mediated through white capital excites and confuses everyone; rise of the fuck-the-police theory of resistance. Women invisible.
Mad Max: Fury Road: Anthropocenic Feminism meets anti-primitivst techno vision of revolution in which the masters stones destroy the masters house. Dystopia as simplified extreme capitalism: Capital/State controls key resources, workers as radicalized slaves/laborers who ‘freely’ sell their labor for commodity/water. Most suffer without health care. Woman as pure reproductive labor; brides and breeders. Max and Furiosa as atypical anti-identitarian Individuals against the state and capital. Vuvalini as communist holdout away from center of power; but doesn’t last. Need to take the center. Worship of Auto, religion of speed, metal, tech, power, engines, gas: control of space, territory, land, geography, climate. Alternatively, YPG vs. ISIS.
Avengers Age of Ultron: Fear of the Coming Singularity: robots making robots, elimination of human labor from its own reproduction. Whats the need for humans, police anyways? Goal of Avengers: self-abolition through creation of artificially intelligent ‘shield’ ‘bouncer’ on earth. Globalization of War: Eastern European ex-communist, american bombed country, East Asian science and genetics, East African mining warlord for precious metals. Ultron as reflection of capitalist own dream of perfect peace through competition: self-destruction of humanity. Avengers as america: individuals with dark pasts trying to avenge their own mistakes, creating more. Twins: results of war, experiments, communism, capitalism—psycho kids of next generation, just want to see it all burn. Taking former communist city, raising it up with mining technology, and dropping it back down to earth as meteor of ‘natural’ destruction. Fear of climate change so high, that its better to just do it ourselves, and evolve.
Jurassic World: nature as presupposition and result; Two kinds of nature: weaponized nature and spectacular nature; genetic modification of nature, our children, destroys all; siblings as hell; dinosaur as terrorist; can only kill, not domesticate.
Ex Machina: Wittengsteinian turing test for artifical intelligence as test of sexual intelligence; creation of AI as man’s attempt to create fantasy woman.
Terminator: Genysis Can’t avoid the future apocalype, only hope is changing the past narrative of why.
Missions Impossible 5: Rogue Nation: conservative critique of structural transformation; blame yourself not the system; american movie franchise vs james bond: myth of global conspiracy coordinating crises and accidents; horror of their meaningless is too much swallow; not enemies against us but our own attempts to preempt enemies for ever turning bad and attacking us (autoimmune)
Kingsman Secret Service: working class revenge story against other working class blokes by means of full state backing.
Man from U.N.C.L.E Revisionist nostalgia for the cold war.
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