#Batman

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Batman alone on the rubble of a collapsed building in blue night light, with small fires burning in the foreground.
Film analysis

The Dark Knight: The Sociology of Gotham and the Philosophy of Chaos

Reading The Dark Knight as an essay in social theory: Hobbes's collapsing Leviathan, Durkheim's anomie, the prisoner's dilemma on the ferries, the panopticon in the sonar machine and Plato's noble lie.

17 June 2023 · 10 min · TR / EN