Abstract
Contrary to prevailing opinions, Neill Blomkamp’s recent feature film Chappie is not a movie about robots or artificial intelligence. It is not Robocop. It is not Short Circuit. It is also not District 9 or Elysium. Chappie is a movie about humanity’s dialectically creative and destructive potential. It is a movie about how it is that humans come to behave how they do through their social and material circumstances, as well as the barbaric results when the two are mixed under the thoroughly undemocratic conditions of neoliberal capitalism.
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Sculos, Bryant William
(2015)
"Automatons, Robots, and Capitalism in a Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay on Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie,"
Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 3:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
DOI: 10.25148/CRCP.3.1.16092132
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol3/iss1/4