Michael liked on YouTube: Blue Pill or Red Pill – The Matrix

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Following on from deconstructing the idea that agency lies with either ‘human’ or ‘machine’, and looking at distributed cognition (Hayles 1999: 288), I reflect on ‘the problems of the real and human agency in contemporary critical theory’ as I watch this classic clip from The Matrix and read Dana L. Cloud’s 2006 article ‘The Matrix and Critical Theory’s Desertion of the Real’…