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Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration
Widely acclaimed upon its release as a future classic, Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is visually stunning, philosophically profound, and a provocative extension of the story in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Containing specially commissioned chapters by a roster of international contributors, this fascinating collection explores philosophical questions that abound in Blade Runner 2049, including:
What distinguishes the authentically "human" person? How might natality condition one's experience of being-in-the-world? How might shared memories feature in the constitution of personal identities? What happens when created beings transcend the limits intended in their design? What (if anything) is it like to be a hologram?
Can artificial beings participate in genuinely romantic relationships?
How might developing artificial economics impact our behaviour as prosumers? What are the implications of techno-human enhancement in an era of surveillance capitalism?
Including a foreword by Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, film studies, philosophy of mind, psychology, gender studies, and conceptual issues in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
What distinguishes the authentically "human" person? How might natality condition one's experience of being-in-the-world? How might shared memories feature in the constitution of personal identities? What happens when created beings transcend the limits intended in their design? What (if anything) is it like to be a hologram?
Can artificial beings participate in genuinely romantic relationships?
How might developing artificial economics impact our behaviour as prosumers? What are the implications of techno-human enhancement in an era of surveillance capitalism?
Including a foreword by Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, film studies, philosophy of mind, psychology, gender studies, and conceptual issues in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
252 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2019
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August 8, 2022
A workmanlike discussion of the thematics of BR 2049. Useful if you want to crib notes to give a lecture on the movie, but otherwise mostly arguments that are either obvious or painfully over-elaborated. (Do we really need dozens of pages debating the pros and cons of the case that Deckard is or is not a replicant?) The presentations of the “philosophical” questions are often jejune (“first we need an account of truth in general”) so that the book as a whole reads like the papers written by a really smart college junior taking his third film theory class.
June 5, 2022
This book helped me write my undergraduate thesis on Blade Runner 2049 and memory, and for that I am forever grateful.
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