What is the Matrix?: Jean Baudrillard and Simulation in the Wachowski Brothers' Matrix Series

by B. Conrad Williams

The symbiosis between Baudrillarian simulation and the Wachowski brothers' Matrix franchise appears not only logical but irrefutable. Yet Baudrillard, strangely, is "unimpressed" with The Matrix, stating in the New York Times (2002) that "the film's 'borrowings' from his work 'stemmed mostly from misunderstandings' and that no movie could do justice to the themes of his work". What is the Matrix? explains why Baudrillard is mistaken. Baudrillard fails...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466455349
• ISBN13: 9781466455344
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"