http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology/2009/01/15/films-du-finance-the-gospel-according-to-repo-man/ Brooke Harrington explores the social underpinnings of money and markets. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:11:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology/2009/01/15/films-du-finance-the-gospel-according-to-repo-man/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:28:49 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology/?p=85#comment-33 Let the record show that Chris, the commenter who posted the extended “plate of shrimp” sequence from “Repo Man,” is also one of the authors of Public Criminology–another Contexts blog (http://thesocietypages.org/pubcrim/). With all that “Repo Man” has to say about the sometimes-blurry line between crime and justice, right and wrong, I imagine the film must be something of a touchstone for criminologists.

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology/2009/01/15/films-du-finance-the-gospel-according-to-repo-man/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:59:44 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology/?p=85#comment-32 A lot of people don’t realize what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate o’ shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o’ shrimp out of the blue — no explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconciousness.

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