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	Popular Narrative
		The Matrix website would definitely appeal to fans of the film: there is an asynchronous chat section with a steady amount of postings, and lots of Quicktime videos of actual movie footage or of the film's stars doing publicity promotions.
		While it isn't clear whether the comic artists at The Matrix website are getting paid for their work, they are obviously a bunch of individuals very committed to expanding upon The Matrix storyline as originally conceived by Andy and Larry Wachowski.
		Matrix: The TV Series and Matrix: The Las Vegas Experience are probably not too far down the road from here.
	web.mit.edu /cms.920/www/critiques/matrix.html (506 words)

	Matrix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matrix (biology), the material between animal or plant cells or the material in the inner membrane of a mitochondria
		Matrix (geology), the fine grains between larger grains in igneous or sedimentary rocks
		Autobot Matrix of Leadership, a talisman in the fictional Transformers Universe
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matrix (410 words)

	Matrix (fictional universe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Humans are grown in pods and are connected by cybernetic implants to an artificial reality called the Matrix, which keeps their minds under control while the machines use the thermal energy of their bodies as an energy source.
		The virtual reality world simulated by the Matrix consists primarily of a vast unnamed megacity which resembles human civilization around the turn of the 21st century (This time period was chosen because it is supposedly the pinnacle of human civilization).
		The survivors would be told the prophecy of the One, but would not be allowed to know of the cycle of the Matrix's renewal, each time believing it to be around the year 2100 when they were revived, and the first time anyone had been freed from the Matrix.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matrix_(fictional_universe) (1156 words)

	bfi \| Sight & Sound \| Everywhere And Nowhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The explanation for The Matrix's unusually wide popularity, and the intense seriousness with which it is taken, is that it offers its viewers, rational or otherwise, a coherent way of conceptualising the world.
		Matrix stories don't have to involve particular characters nor be set in a particular world, but need only be inspired by a malleable central premise, the dichotomy of reality and computer-induced illusion.
		One measure of the potency of the Wachowskis' fictional scheme is that it appeals both to the hyper-rational and to those whose rationality has failed them - like the killers in the United States who supposedly invoked the film as an explanation for their actions.
	www.bfi.org.uk:8080 /sightandsound/feature/40 (2174 words)

	Slavoj Zizek - Reloaded Revolutions
		The paradox, the "infinite judgment" of The Matrix is the co-dependence of the two aspects: the total artificiality (the constructed nature) of reality, and the triumphant return of the body in the sense of the ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defiance of the laws of ordinary physical reality.
		Recall a wonderful scene in which Cipher, the traitor, the agent of the Matrix among the rebels, who is located in reality, kills one after the other rebels (who are immersed into the VR of the Matrix) by simply unplugging them from the connection to the machine.
		This situation, while parallel to that of all humans who are plugged into the Matrix, is worse insofar as here, humans are fully aware not only of their true situation, but also of the threat posed in reality by the evil agent who intends to kill them shortly.
	www.lacan.com /zizreloaded.htm (2334 words)

	The Philosophy of the Matrix
		They are people who grew up in the Matrix world and their experience of their Matrix body and how to use it makes that phenomenal body their body, even if another body they can't even imagine has in its skull the brain that is the causal basis of their experience.
		Likewise, in The Matrix version of the brain in the vat situation, those who have been hauled from the vat into what they experience as the everyday world can see that what they took for granted about the causal ground of their experience before was mistaken.
		The advantage of a solitary Matrix is that the virtual environment can be completely tailored to an individual's desires perhaps the Matrix "reads off" the content of desires from his brain, anticipating a little, matching its programming as far as possible to the satisfaction of his desires as they develop and change.
	www.onwardoverland.com /matrix/philosophy.html (21364 words)

	Animatrix Review (2003)
		The Animatrix is a collection of nine visually stunning short subjects intended to fill the gaps between The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded.
		Larry and Andy Wachowski, the creators of the Matrix feature films, were involved with each of the animated shorts to varying degrees, insuring that the shorts dovetailed neatly within the Matrix’s fictional universe.
		The Matrix is about a world where machines have enslaved humanity, and most of the human race is blissfully unaware of the truth, lost in a shared virtual reality.
	www.geocities.com /d-patanella/animatrix.html (621 words)

	Unicron: Character or Plot Device?
		The purpose of the Matrix was not significantly expounded upon in the film, but given that it resembles a miniature planet-mode Unicron, the implication is clear that its sole purpose is to destroy Unicron.
		Of course, there's also the notion that even in a fictional universe in which there is a very clear deliniation of "good guys" and bad guys," kids are far less likely to root for characters who don't even have toys made in their likeness.
		He was involved in the stories that shook both the cartoon and comics universes to their respective foundations, and the fervent wish of one of his toy prototypes being mass-marketed haunts the fandom to this day.
	www.angelfire.com /ego/zobovor/unicron_essay.html (1690 words)

	Slavoj Zizek - Slavoj Žižek - The Cyberspace Real
		As such, the pervert's universe is the universe of pure symbolic order, of the signifier's game running its course, unencumbered by the Real of human finitude.
		And this is what Lynch does in The Lost Highway: he "traverses" our late-capitalist fantasmatic universe not by way of direct social criticism (depicting the grim social reality which serves as its actual foundation), but by staging these fantasies openly, without the "secondary perlaboration" which usually masks their inconsistencies.
		Peter Hoeg's novel The Woman and the Ape stages sex with an animal as a fantasy of full sexual relationship, and it is crucial that this animal is as a rule male: in contrast to the cyborg-sex fantasy, in which the cyborg is as a rule a woman, i.e.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/zizek/zizek-the-cyberspace-real.html (2071 words)

	Universes
		The universe consists of all matter, light, and other forms of radiation and energy that have been discovered by man. The universe also consists of everything that man believes to be present in space / time as a result of his theories.
		Astronomers date Universe's 'cosmic jerk' New Scientist The point when the repulisve force of the dark energy overwhelmed gravity and started the accelerating expansion of the Universe that continues today has been revealed.
		First structures of the Universe All recent computer-simulations of the early universe have one prediction in common: the first large-scale structures to form in the young universe are long filaments connected at their ends in "nodes".
	www.crystalinks.com /universes.html (2839 words)

	Freedom Friendly Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The first type of freedom-friendly fiction is set in a society where there is very little freedom actually left.
		The second kind of fiction that portrays liberty in a positive state is one in which a free society exists but is in imminent danger of being overthrown by statists and collectivists intent on regaining power over their fellow citizens.
		It is the taken-for-granted condition that underpins the society of this detective novel, a matrix in which the characters play out their stories.
	home.earthlink.net /~rdmadden/webdocs/Freedom_Friendly_Fiction.html (615 words)

	'The Tao of Neo' --- By Joe Gross, American-Statesman --- 05/15/03
		Wednesday, "The Matrix Reloaded" opened in theaters nationwide (to be followed by a sequel, "The Matrix Revolutions," in November), and we were given the opportunity to free our minds yet again.
		Give "Matrix" writer-directors the Wachowski brothers this: Their ability to blend many flavors without making the whole thing taste like chicken is simply remarkable.
		Napier teaches "The Matrix" in her UT course on "Cinema of the Apocalypse." Animé is littered with end-times images -- presumably because Japan nearly experienced the end times at the close of World War II.
	www.austin360.com /movies/content/movies/reviews/m/matrix_15cover.html;COXnetJSessionID=1C5Ajcs5NnEs5e4VHtPt2dtVsVTHr2AScPLIv5VK2sPjeq84SK63!1782816277?urac=n&urvf=10655153926170.5385436593886793 (2042 words)

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		The universe of Greek gods and heroes was not invented anew by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes; instead each developed a certain language or a certain angle of vision in relation to a relatively stable mythological universe.
		It is a version, based on a fiction, of a game based on the same fiction, visualized by films based separately on that fiction.
		As Thomas Pavel writes: Fictional domains can acquire a certain independence, subsist outside the limits of actuality, and sometimes strongly influence us, not unlike a colony established overseas that develops its own unusual constitution and later comes to affect in various ways the life of the metropolis...
	badstar.net /stf2.doc (3864 words)

	matrix - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Matrix : A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering [home, info]
		Phrases that include matrix: square matrix, dot matrix printer, dot matrix, active matrix, passive matrix display, more...
		This is a OneLook Word of the Day, which means it might be in the news.
	www.onelook.com /?w=matrix&loc=wotd (489 words)

	Amber
		For Roger Zelazny's fictional universe of the same name, see Amber (fictional universe).
		For the ancient Indian city of the same name, see Amber (city).
		The nodules from the blue earth have to be freed from matrix and divested of their opaque crust, which can be done in revolving barrels containing sand and water.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/am/Amber.html (2030 words)

	surefish.co.uk: culture - films - Hoover St Revival
		Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski are involved as writers on some, while elsewhere they simply gave their permission for other talents to run amok in the playroom of their fictional universe.
		Matrix fans, generally speaking, fall into two camps: those who are drawn to the high concept philosophical debate that underpins the movies, and those who don't care about the intellectual stuff, but love the martial arts, guns and cars.
		The films give the impression of being made by artists who are burning to tell their story and engage with the mind; the Animatrix collection seems like it was a cool marketing idea.
	www.surefish.co.uk /culture/films/0903/170903_animatrix.htm (595 words)

	Do We Live in the Matrix?
		The closer one moves to this new physics, as in the future shaking hands with the past, the closer one comes to the idea that "life, the universe, and everything" are part of a vast living simulation: the ultimate computer game.
		There appears to be room, at the end of the universe, for a menu that derives ultimate meaning from the final thought of our future self.
		When we consider the whole shebang; when we ask the ultimate question of "life, the universe, and everything," the answer is not likely to be 42 (the answer supplied by Adam's fictional 'deep thought' computer).
	www.mindpowernews.com /Matrix2.htm (2081 words)

	The Real Matrix
		The Matrix was a self ware entity that was knowingly manipulating to ensure its own survival by generating the events necessary to produce the fear that empowered it.
		In the movies, the Matrix is depicted from the outside as a series of green numbers and codes, while inside it is experienced as the sort of world we think we live in mountains, streets, cars, people and so on.
		The Matrix entity, 'self aware fear', had created an illusion of time to trap its prey, its prisoners, in a state of disconnection in which they would forget who they were.
	www.2012.com.au /real_matrix.html (9388 words)

	Paranormal Magazine: The Real Matrix, An Explanation for the Paranormal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The physics behind the hologram are a little difficult to explain in layman terms, but the general gist of it is this: Holograms are three-dimensional images recorded in film by splitting a laser beam in half.
		The holographic model of the universe basically describes existence as a literal hologram created by vibrations in the universe bouncing off each other, creating interference patterns that record what we see as the physical world.
		The really interesting thing about the theory is that it is capable of explaining the wide range of phenomena that has been categorized as being outside the province of scientific understanding, such as telepathy, precognition, mystical feelings of oneness with the universe, and even psychokinesis, or the ability to move objects with without touching them.
	www.paranormalmagazine.com /2006/01/real-matrix-explanation-for-paranormal.html (475 words)

	Animation World Magazine
		The Wachowski brothers and producer Joel Silver first discussed the idea of recruiting anime artists to help tell the larger story of The Matrix universe in 1997, during their Japanese press tour in support of The Matrix.
		The Wachowskis and Davis again collaborated on The Matrix in which he used a mix of classical compositions, popular music, electronic synthesizer effects and even a touch of the avant-garde.
		Final Flight of the Osiris had a visual and dramatic characteristic that was close to the movies, mostly because the animation was similar to the quality of a live-action film, so I was able to score it as though it was part of one of the movies.
	mag.awn.com /index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1702&page=3 (621 words)

	JoyOfMovies.com: Movie Review of The Matrix Revolutions
		The Wachowski brothers seem to be involved mainly in universe-building, in expanding the palette of places and people in their fiction, as if to fill out a deck of role-playing cards.
		In short, those who refuse to be emmersed into Revolutionsand the Matrix saga CANNOT comment on it, because of its huge moral implications and issues along with masses of philosophical questions which these people refuse to think about.
		They have totally surrendered themselves to the Matrix saga and not exactly believe in it, as much as believe it to be possible.
	www.seattlecat.com /joyofmovies/2003/matrixrevolutions.html (1586 words)

	Michael Casavant's Shadowrun Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Note: these are fictional terms that describe things in the fictional universe of the Shadowrun game system.
		Matrix - the term used to refer to the sub reality of cyberspace in the Shadowrun universe.
		Frag/Fragger [vulgar slang] - the "F-word" of the Shadowrun Universe.
	michael.casavant.us /SRIII/srterms.htm (7250 words)

	Matrix Stratics - Archived News for January 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		One of the great features of The Matrix Online is that players have the ability to upload and download multiple skill sets of disciplines and abilities during the normal course of play.
		While a beta tester’s primary charge is to track down bugs in The Matrix Online, they also manage to have a really good time between filing their bug reports.
		What is unusual about The Matrix Online beta community is the way in which they are having their fun.
	matrix.stratics.com /content/news/archive/arc0-2005.php?nocookies=1 (1738 words)

	IN DEFENSE OF THE MATRIX.
		The first Matrix film not only contained a premise that could be sufficiently described as "really cool," but employed a unique cultural nexus of ideas unmatched in popular American cinema since the independent film boom of the early 70's.
		Now, add to all of this the fact that The Matrix itself is an entirely new plane of fictional reality, so comprehensive and original as to be unmatched in American popular cultural by anything short of The Empire, Middle Earth and The United Federation of Planets.
		The Matrix universe is such a momentous artistic achievement, functioning on so many levels, that the negative popular reaction to the last two installments of the series doesn't just sit poorly with us, it's positively infuriating.
	www.blacktable.com /matrix031110.htm (1383 words)

	Abduction samples
		In such an informatic universe, evolution functions less according to a logic of incorporation than an operation of proliferation, a universal ecstacy that thrives on the copy even more than it eats away at an interiority or organism.
		For Dick, the universe has ceased to be an outside that he somehow lives "in" - instead, the "memory coils" called Philip K Dick are in continual contact with the very surface of the universe, information that is continually transforming him.
		For it is in a matrix of hospitality, an exposure to an other, Fredkin's unavoidable, finite, "running" of abduction events - the encounter of an nth kind, the informatic permeability of thought - that abduction itself gets abducted, taken for a ride, carried away.
	www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/r/m/rmd12/abduction.html (5788 words)

	Matrix Stratics - Archived News for December 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Matrix Online Stratics' first ever Matrix Online House of Commons has finished, and it was a rousing success.
		Matrix Online Stratics is proud to announce that today, Wednesday December 15th at 3PM Pacific time, we will be hosting a House of Commons Developer Chat with the developers of The Matrix Online.
		The Matrix Online is an MMOG where tens of thousands of players will jack into the Matrix world to take an active role in continuing the saga of The Matrix movie trilogy.
	matrix.stratics.com /content/news/archive/arc11-2004.php?nocookies=1 (1631 words)

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