When President Obama was accused of irresponsibly introducing ‘class warfare’ into politics, Warren Buffett gloated: ‘There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.’ If class warfare is still anathema in American public discourse, this repressed topic is returning with a vengeance in Hollywood. One doesnt have to look far for class struggle there – like it or not, we encounter it quickly and unexpectedly. Just think about post-apocalyptic blockbusters (and even video games) such as Neil Blomkamp’s Elysium (2013), set in 2154, when the rich live on a gigantic man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth that looks like an expanded Latin American favela. Slavoj Zizek, Trouble in Paradise, From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 03:27:06 +0000
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