Hi Dan
Blade runner focuses really in the question of what it is to be human.
But it also meets the question of ideology. Can't you see an ideology
between replicants? Replicants didn't know they are replicants. They got
a real ideology a real structure.
"Ideology is the imaginary version, the represented version, the stories
we tell ourselves about our relation to the real world."
This is what replicants are doing. Can't you see that we are replicants
seen by the eyes of ideology!!
>>the question of what it is to be human, a question that seems to me to
be >>prior to ideology
Well to me is just a matter of perspective. You can't ask, what is to be
human without ask how is it to be a human.
On the feminist's theories, I really don't agree with Matt opinion on
primacy of the male perspective. I can hardly believe that PKD had any
of these concepts in his mind when he wrote any line. I can assume that
we live inside this type of ideologies and also PKD lived inside. But
this doesn't give us the right to assume this is the primal. What has
been reiterated by PKD in all is texts, was only one thing, "WHAT IS
REALITY?"
Nelson
-----Original Message-----
From: Shaw, Dan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: film and ideology
Nelson:
I think Total Recall fits the bill, focusing as it does on personal
identity and the social milieu within which it is defined, but your
other two choices aren't apposite to Kate's inquiry. Planet of the Apes
does have a wonderful role reversal at the end, but it seems to be more
about anthropocentrism than ideology. Blade Runner focuses almost
exclusively on the question of what it is to be human, a question that
seems to me to be prior to ideology (though I could be convinced
otherwise).
Dan
"For beauty is the beginning of terror that we are still able to bear,
and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us."
Rilke's First Elegy
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