{"id":85,"date":"2003-06-03T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T07:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constant.irisnet.be\/%7Econstant\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2003-06-03T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2003-06-03T07:57:35","slug":"matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"MAtRiX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/\">Ken Macleod<\/a> about Matrix<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(&#8230;) I thought of something I hadn&#8217;t before &#8211; the real reason why<br \/>\nin the film the machines use the humans as a power source, as<br \/>\n&#8216;batteries&#8217;, something I have long derided. On a literal level it is of<br \/>\ncourse ridiculous. But symbolically it makes literal sense: we are the<br \/>\nsource of their power. Surplus value comes only from living labour, not<br \/>\nfrom machines.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the title and see whose name is spelled out in it: The MAtRiX.<\/p>\n<p>Comrades, this is no accident! &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Macleod about Matrix &#8220;(&#8230;) I thought of something I hadn&#8217;t before &#8211; the real reason why in the film the machines use the humans as a power source, as &#8216;batteries&#8217;, something I have long derided. On a literal level it is of course ridiculous. But symbolically it makes literal sense: we are the source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}