https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.9290
The plot of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? inspired the creators of screenplays for the movies Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Apart from the often discussed theme of the cogito of the androids, the Blade Runner trilogy also contains narrative strategies that allow researchers to analyse it from the perspective of animal studies. Of particular importance are the ontological discontinuities of cyberbiological animals (animoids) and the idea of interspecies links between organic and technological beings, which is interpreted here as a criticism of consumer society. The foregoing narrative strategies, linked to the spectre of the ecocatastrophe, introduce intertextual references related to the Anthropocene and the crisis of spirituality. They also indicate the necessity of rethinking some of the rudimentary means of cultural categorization.
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No. 42 (2021)
Published: 2021-09-19
10.31261/errgo
English
Język Polski