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Robin Bunce,Trip McCrossin

Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy

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  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    The film’s overall message here is that we have lost our humanity, the ability to feel and love; replicants should be designed around human values like empathy and love, and that they should be treated like humans
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Capitalist realism, according to Mark Fisher, is a kind of capitalist exceptionalism, a widespread sense that “not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it” (Capitalist Realism, p. 2)
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Blade runners need to use the Voight-Kampff Test to gauge replicants’ emotional reactions, showing just how little biology shapes their identity (remember, Deckard nearly fails to identify Rachael as a replicant). As Bryant tells Deckard, “They were designed to copy human beings in every way except their emotions”—and even their emotional immaturity is not exceptionally non-human, given their youth and inexperience.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Blade Runner is more purely constructivist. Unlike other prominent artificial beings in science fiction, such as Data in Star Trek and the T-800 in Terminator 2, Blade Runner’s replicants are presented as nearly indistinguishable from humans. There is no metal or wiring underneath their skin.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Identity is complicated and multifaceted.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    The bigotry K faces in his apartment complex suggests that even humans without access to advanced police tools can find ways to uncover a replicant’s true identity
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Both the power structures of society and individual prejudices reinforce the boundaries between replicants and humans.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Perhaps more importantly, both films treat replicant identity like an ethnic identity.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Replicants come across as fundamentally human, save for their persecution by humanity.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Such strong emotion renders him too unpredictable, too dangerous, and useless as a cold-blooded killing machine
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