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Topic subjectI've been reading modern philosophy since I was 16.
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706641, I've been reading modern philosophy since I was 16.
Posted by denny, Sat Jan-02-16 01:35 AM
This movie explicitly references Wittgenstein, Pollack, Peirce, Dewey and more. By explicit...I mean that their actual names are spoken by the characters.....the title of their books/essays is spoken by the characters....the arguments/ideas contained in those people's works are represented in the dialogue. Pollack's fucking painting is hanging on the wall.

If you're not familiar with the subject material then you're not familiar. But for Christ's sake....take a seat. All of these themes are well-established by a litany of analysis and articles on the interwebs if one would need that without seeing it for themselves. There's interviews available where Garland discusses the reading list he used in preparing for the movie.

Resorting to an anti-intellectual, aggressive position because you are unfamiliar with the material is some real ignorant shit my uninformed brethen.