Memory at work: an essay on Blade Runner 2049
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This essay takes as its starting point the relationship between the treatment of memory in Blade Runner 2049 and what Eric Auerbach famously proposed as the double origin of realism in Western literature, in the first chapter of his book Mimesis, in order to address the political meaning of the film in terms that exceed the logic of representation. It discusses the articulation between memory and subjectivity that film elaborates as well as the very possibility of treating the film as an artwork, and not merely as a cultural commodity. The argument also draws on the relationship between the protagonist K and both the filmic landscape that surrounds him and narrative devices that either sustain or erode the stability of his identity.
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