Lacanian perspectives on Blade runner 2049 /

This book provides a collection of Lacanian responses to Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 from leading theorists in the field. Like Ridley Scott's original Blade Runner film, its sequel is now poised to provoke philosophical and psychoanalytic arguments, and to provide illustrations an...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Neill, Calum, 1968- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Palgrave Lacan series
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. From Voight-Kampf Test to Baseline Test: An Introduction; Calum Neill.- Chapter 2. Do Filminds Dream of Celluloid Sheep? Lacan, Filmosophy and Blade Runner 2049; Ben Tyrer.- Chapter 3. A View of Post-Human Capitalism; Slavoj Zizek.- Chapter 4. Between the Capitalist and the Cop; Todd McGowan.- Chapter 5. The Phantom of the Sinthome and the Joi of Sex; Daniel Bristow.- Chapter 6. Home Bodies; Timothy Richardson.- Chapter 7. Object Oriented Subjectivity; Matthew Flisfeder.- Chapter 8. Extimate Replicants; Alex Bove.- Chapter 9. In Anxious Anticipation Of Our Imminent Obsolescence; Scott M Koterbay.- Chapter 10. 'Before We Even Know What We Are, We Fear to Lose It': The Missing Object of the Primal Scene; Isabel Millar.- Chapter 11. Women Between Worlds: A Psychoanalysis of Sex in Blade Runner 2049; Sheila Kunkle