re: "claims about reality" that is indeed a shorthand. what i mean is "what does this work, based on evidence, seem to think is true?"
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Replying to @thesublemon @chromalisque
i see the matrix as making a big broad mood claim, but more political works as making lots of specific claims. i can see how the former...
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...would feel like "claiming more". but again my posts are drafts of ideas & in a more formal essay i'd be more careful w/ research/examples
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your resources are really cool though! feel free to share more if they occur to you
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thanks for responding! its great to find ppl working these things out in public. hope i wasnt too aggressive abt my reservations
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i guess one thing is i 'see' matrix more as having specific political meaning and snowp's 'politics' as just true in the fiction, not claims
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but this is hard to get at w/o close reading or maybe a different framing
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yeah, fair. i think maybe i take the matrix at face value because the dream/real world framing feels generic or mythological in some way
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whereas sp kind of elevates a political attitude to a generic/mythological status by using it as a fairy tale setting, which feels weirder
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but i'm definitely going on past impressions here and i might change my mind if i did a rewatch+close reading
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same but life is too short to rewatch snowpiercer imo
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