Sun Ra and The Matrix movies

[Lazaro Vega]

http://www.firstofthemonth.org/culture/cul...te_history.html

[blue lake]

Prompted by this post from Malachi Thompson on Chi-Improv list:

Getting Unplugged: Deep Thoughts Behind The Matrix Movie

presented by Hunter Adams III and Leland Jackson

Center for Inner City Studies - 700 E. OAKWOOD Blvd. Student Lounge

February 27, 2004 7pm $5

call 773-536-6555 for more information

We take the Matrix movies, as well as the ideas they expound and explore

seriously. We believe, despite being snubbed for an Oscar nomination, they deserve

deeper interrogation and wider discussion. We will consider these films from

a number of perspectives. Could we be living in a "MATRIX?" We examine a claim

that a black woman is the mother of the Matrix storyline.

Philosophically, what does the Matrix owe Plato, Descartes, and others like

the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, Kant, Marx, Baudrillard, Derrida, Schopenhauer, Cornel

West, and Stan Lee, Luke Skywalker and Alice in Wonderland? More than one

might think.

Beyond the box office records and despite a myriad of philosophical and

religious references The Matrix Triology of films get at best a footnote in the

religious press, and is seemingly shunned (at least publicly) by the pulpit and

press of the black church. Why?

This event is presented by the Sutherland Community Arts Initiative and the

Center For Inner City Studies and supported by the City of Chicago Empowerment

Zone and the Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation.