RE: Adorno on TV

[Ralph Dumain <rdumain@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:49 PM 6/3/99 -0700, Matthew Levy wrote:
>I would very much like to hear your further thoughts on "The
>Matrix" as well, should you choose to pursue this theme and in
>case you go off list.  And let me say also while I'm here that
>your posts over the
>last few years that I have been subscribed to this list have been
>some of
>the most consistently provocative even when I find myself to be
>fundamentally skeptical of some of your basic assumptions (which
>happens
>much less consistently).

Aw, shucks.  Thanks for your kind words.  I will reciprocate when I can,
but not in reaction to the rest of this post.  I think you are dead wrong
about every single film you mention.  I wish I had time to comment on each
of your assertions.

>I am committed to a left-critical analysis of these images which
>"mean" so much to me even as I (partly ironically) enjoy them.

I never read left-critical analyses of any cultural phenomena, because they
are all bullshit.  Interpretation is an art; there's only so much that can
be taught, and few people are that inspired, least of all the academic left.

>I need to get back to a paper on
>(of all things) Chomsky and Heidegger

What could you possibly have to say about _Chomsky_ and Heidegger?
That the former discovered something about language and the latter nothing?

> ... but I will shut up before I let
>anyone see my lunacy in its totality.

Too late!

Death to academia!