A Critical Study of Blade Runner from A Posthumanism Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.53469/jsshl.2024.07(02).22Keywords:
Posthumanism, Blade Runner, Cyborg, Literary TheoryAbstract
Posthumanism is the theory concerned with how the developments in technology and science has challenged our conception of what it means to be human. It looks for representations of a posthuman condition within literature, mostly in science fiction texts. The theory mapping the development of humanism into the present day and its relationship with technology and devoting in looking at the distinction between humans and animals and/or humans and machines. As one of the most notable artworks in the film industry, the Blade Runner is always regarded as a representative research object of posthumanism theory. This paper would mainly focus on the analysis of Blade Runner, to see how posthumanism is performed and distillated in this classical film.
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