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The Matrix trilogy keeps to separate reviews commonly, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. however, it's been absolutely embraced as a wealthy resource of theoretical and cultural references. The contributions during this quantity probe the results the Matrix trilogy maintains to impress and evaluation how or to what volume they coincide with convinced advancements inside severe and cultural idea. Is the enthusiastic philosophising and theorising spurned through the Matrix an indication of the determined kingdom idea is in, within the experience of "see how low thought (or ‘post-theory’) has sunk"? Or may perhaps the Matrix be one of many "master texts" for whatever like a renewal for conception as now being normally desirous about new and altering relatives among technological know-how, expertise, posthumanist tradition, artwork, politics, ethics and the media? the current quantity is unashamedly yet no longer dogmatically theoretical although there isn't a lot contract approximately what sort of thought is most suitable to confront "post-theoretical" instances. however it is maybe reasonable to claim that there's contract approximately something, particularly that if conception seems to be "like" the Matrix this day it does so as the tradition round it and which "made" it itself appears captured in a few form of Matrix. the single manner out of this is often via extra and renewed, refreshed theorising, no longer much less.
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As it happens, at the end of Revolutions they are not freed. Neo’s success is to establish a peace between the machines and the humans of Zion. The bulk of humanity remains enslaved by the machines. At the end of The Matrix Neo is about to tell all the human slaves that the Matrix is unreal. What purpose this will have beyond making them unhappy in their circumstance is unclear. It is the machines which are keeping humanity alive after its suicide. More, the machines provide an illusory world which is better than the 1999 peak of human civilisation.