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Article: If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes: destabilized spectatorship and creation's chaos in blade runner.(Critical Essay)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Twenty-two years after the initial release of Ridley Scott's futuristic drama, Blade Runner (theater release, 1982; director's cut, 1991) (1), we find ourselves in something of a realization of the film's predicted universe: the world has become radically altered through globalization, the majority of human interactions--on a mass scale--are determined by commerce, and the line between the real and the virtual is a blur, threatening to dissolve into indistinction. As our claim on the agency of creation is fortified through biotechnology, the blur spreads to our relationship with God: who is the creator when we can make robots, sheep, even human beings?
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