Technology and Politics in the BLADE RUNNER Dystopia

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Kerman, Judith. "Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia." In Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER and Philip K. Dick's DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?. Judith Kerman, ed. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1997, 2004: pp. 16-24.[1][2][3]

"Although some technologies have been widely disseminated in the film's society which are very expensive today,such as Chew's lab and the electronmicroscope used by a Cambodian woman in a street market stall, control of such detail-oriented technologies evidently does not carry with it wide-ranging political power like that implicit in the Esper machine. This suggests severe limits to populist hopes that falling prices of high technology necessarily lead to "trickling-down" of power" (Retrofitting p. 21).


See also Shetley Vernon and Alissa Ferguson's "Reflections in a Silver Eye: Lens and Mirror in BLADE RUNNER".

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