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Philosophy and Blade Runner
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idley Scott judges Blade Runner to be unusual as films go: ‘Blade Runner works on a level which I haven’t seen much – or ever – in a mainstream film. It works like a book. Like a very dark novel’ (Knapp and Kulas 2005, p. xiv). This is hardly surprising given the film’s genesis in Philip K. Dick’s 1968 dystopian science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In his biography of Philip Kindred Dick (‘PKD’ to his legions of fans), Emmanuel Carrère (2004, p. 131) attributes Dick’s writing of Electric Sheep to his desire to extol the glory of the human being: ‘But to extol the glory of the human being, Phil first had to define and flesh out the opposite of the human, which for Phil was not the animal or the thing but what he called the “simulacrum” – in other words, the robot.’ Androids, robots, andother human simulacra populate his writings, including Electric Sheep. As Dick explains, ‘Sheep stemmed from my basic interest in the problem of differentiating the authentic human being from the reflexive machine, which I call an android. In my mind android is a metaphor for people who are physiologically human but behaving in a nonhuman way’ (Sammon 1996, p. 16).
Timothy Shanahan - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978–1–137–41228–7
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Philosophy and Blade Runner
Management
English
Palgrave Macmillan
2014
USA
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