A Note On The Social Network (2010)

When I see it I always want to tell someone that The Social Network is the best film ever made. Lacan said the matheme was defined by having consequences, like making the July 1969 moonwalk possible (maths = exotopy). The example of a mathematical consequence in Fincher’s film is Facebook. The mathematisation of the Harvard collegiate Facebook (the Facebook) began a plastic explosion that has effectively nuclear consequences.

If there is a social content to the story it’s Zuckerberg blurring the line between needing you and needing the algorithm. Does Jesse Eisenberg leave behind Rooney Mara or vice versa? It really doesn’t really matter in basic terms; the film is effective because from the first scene the main idea is that the social space is already curved as bias, without return. The feud over ownership doesn’t matter either cuz Eisenberg is formalising what is already happening, which is irreversible social injustice. In his pyjamas on the street like the ageless child Proust, Eisenberg (the real Zuck) folds down a whole civilisation of the book into the 1, which is what Timberlake indicates when he suggests the removal of the definite article, from the Facebook to Facebook.