Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: List Of Blade Runner Characters, Shining Light, Replicant
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Dick (story author) concerned about ecology therefore he proposed story where world is dying and humans must leave the planet old concept in science fiction. 2019: no life left animals are extinct, only humans and replicants; typical post-apocalyptic wasteland. Unicorn scene therefore deckard must be a replicant director finally says that yes he is. Maus connection past so important to blade runner, past must be fake. Tyrell is replicant you see different things from different cuts of movie. Move from modernism (closing farmland and opening big cities) now we no longer make stuff, North america makes its money by selling ideas and information. Arriving in moment, no longer in modernist world and now in post-modern world: toy eyes. Deckard in room full of toys and can"t tell which is toy and which is real. Apparently impossible for deckard to tell the boundary between real and fake lines softening and blurring.