(ot) It is done!

[NoOneofConsequence]

I have just filed my PhD thesis for permanent binding and booked my spot in the next graduation ceremony.



Soon I will be Doctor No One of Consequence

*happy dance*


edit: ps. the thesis title is "Religion: Jedi Myth and Metaphysics in SF Film in the post-Star Wars Era (1977 - 1997)"

 

[Maldur]

Good luck

Tell us more, Permanent binding? Bookbindings? Mariage? whats it about ?

 

[NoOneofConsequence]

Good luck

Tell us more, Permanent binding? Bookbindings? Mariage? whats it about ?

Thanks for the luck - but it's past that stage. It's passed and now belongs to the ages. Permanent binding means that it is now a book in my university's collection. The fork is in it...it's done.

Now, to shop my intellectual property to a publisher, after all, I gotta make this dog pay somehow.

 

[Maldur]

Thanks for the luck - but it's past that stage. It's passed and now belongs to the ages. Permanent binding means that it is now a book in my university's collection. The fork is in it...it's done.

Now, to shop my intellectual property to a publisher, after all, I gotta make this dog pay somehow.

OK, Ill make it a well done then

But what is is about? ( you still havent told us

 

[NoOneofConsequence]

The thesis is an examination of religious and mythological themes in sf cinema from 1977 - 1997 (from Star Wars to the re-release), focussing in particular on images of the Demonic, the Angelic, the Divine and the constitution of Heroes.

 

[Welverin]

Thanks for the luck - but it's past that stage. >snip<

Now, to shop my intellectual property to a publisher, after all, I gotta make this dog pay somehow.

You might want the luck for this part.

Here's some more.

 

[Airwolf]

Congrats on completing your thesis and graduating!!

 

[emergent]

Congratulations! Best of luck getting it published. Are you looking for an academic-type job?

I am ABD, just starting on serious dissertation work, so it's always good to hear tales of completion.

 

[Jeph]

Congrats!

So, from the expert...Is Neo Jesus?

 

[NoOneofConsequence]

Congrats!

So, from the expert...Is Neo Jesus?

Neo is a Hero and exists in the text as a configuration of the audience. He mediates the metaphysical - in this case the Matrix - on our behalf.

He is undertaking a quest in the Wilderness (the space between Civilisation and the Metaphysical spaces; heaven and hell) in order to negotiate the question of human work in the post industrial world - ie. the films represent post industrial humanity's fear that because their intellectual property and capital can be owned by others, they themselves are owned by others. In the text, all of humanity is enslaved and their entire being is used to service an invisible (to most) machinery that treats them as resources (literally Human Resources)

Neo isn't Jesus (Jesus is a divine figure). Neo is more of the tradition of heroes such as Hercules or Gilgamesh or "Monkey" - semi divine heroic beings but not the creators of how things are meant to be.

That being said, there are strong parallels between Neo and Jesus - especially with the Architect. That whole scene reads like the temptation in the desert, with the Architect in the role of Satan. Interesting, until I started writing this I hadn't thought of that connection.

So...oh, wait a minute, you weren't seriously asking my expert opinion, were you?

OK, like every good post modernist, I'll end by saying something controversial (and you can quote me on this):

"If Neo is Jesus, then so is Luke Skywalker!"

Oh and thanks for the congrats.