Did you guys hear about what happened to the JD.com dude?

Its fucked man

@Happy Humble Hermit Loved your collab with Sunrise and Reverend20piece. Hope you get a convo with tfm soon, would be great.

"the atomized and isolated individual as a result of capitalism" this claim needs evidence

hermit should make a debate text channel

and a channel about channels, and a channel about that too

@igorbloodscene Ok. 1) define evidence 2) As a worker must sell his labor power to survive, he is alienated from his labor, the means of production, other workers and himself. He is seen as nothing more than as Stardusk puts it "a human doing not a human being" and is only valued inso far as how much he can aid in the accumulation of capital. This alienation makes individuals more and more atomized as they cannot know themselves for their identities are only known in relation to other commodities.

For example in Blade Runner 2049, Officer K is seen as nothing more than a replicant, or tool to be used to do the bidding of LAPD, and to always obey humans. And it is from this relationship that he is only able to know who he is. It is only through the recognition of his inherent inability to become a master (i.e. human) that he must know that his identity is a slave. This is Hegel's Master/Slave dialectic in action during the entire film.

Likewise, in capitalism, a worker only knows that he is a worker only insomuch as he knows that he does not own the means of production i.e. he knows that he is not a capitalist. Thus, he becomes isolated and atomized as his only social relation is valuable insofar as he is useful. Competition with other workers, the social and societal rules becoming more muddied and hard to understand, anomie ensues and people become more individuated and convince themselves that they must rely upon no one but themselves due to distrust of other people.

@Justinian I'm scheduled to appear on the tfm show this Saturday

Hell yeah

I have to return some video tapes.

@Seven Of Swords blade runner 2049 was a sequel not a remake

tru

Bladerunner 2049 is a cinematic masterpiece

With regard to remakes, not sequels, for the most part, yes they are garbage.

Thanks for the clarification @ZODD

But maybe Dune will be different lol

There's gonna be a sequal for Dune?

I think its a remake

@ZODD We're both wrong and right lmao

Denis Villeneuve, the same director as Sicario and Blade Runner 2049 will be directing the Dune remake lmao

Its a remake, but the director is brilliant! I'm conflicted...

I suppose it'll be a bittersweet experience for you

I can't wait to see it honestly lol

I'll have to make up my mind once I see it on the screen haha

Have you seen The Arrival? It's another film by Villeneuve

No, but I need to.

It is great

noice

The arrival was one of the good movies with a female protagonist because it didn't get in the way much and i liked the lovecraft vibe from it

He also directed sicario which was a great portrayal of a female protagonist because she broke down under pressure and was manhandled

Right? Anything that gives off a Lovecraftian vibe is intriguing

You know what other movie was goos with a female protagonist? Atomic Blonde.

I haven't seen that one

Its great. Cherlize Theron is nude in several scenes and kicks the shit out of KGB agents during the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I like Charlize Theron. Come to think of it, Tom Hardy was in that one too right? Well they were both on Mad Max: Fury Road

James MacAvoy was in Atomic Blonde with her.

Mad Max: Fury Road was very good too

Ah, for some reason I thought I saw Tom Hardy in the trailer for it