Neo is instructed by some shadowy presence seemingly in his computer to “follow the white rabbit.” That’s a reference to Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” one of the movie’s ...

Few philosophers score a book-to-film treatment, and fewer still become blockbusters. Jean Baudrillard-the scholar whose idea of simulation both inspired and appeared in The Matrix (1999)-is the rare ...

The death of the 77-year-old French thinker Jean Baudrillard -- best known for the flamboyant title of his 1991 screed, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, and the salute to his doubts about reality in ...