scholarly journals La estética del género ciberpunk como filosofía de la historia: un recorrido por las arquitecturas fílmicas de Alphaville, Blade Runner y Matrix y su ruptura del espacio-tiempo

Área Abierta ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-435
Author(s):  
Julio Pérez Manzanares ◽  
Amaia Zufiaur Ruiz de Eguino
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La aparición del género ciberpunk coincide con los inicios de la denominada posmodernidad. En el presente artículo, y siguiendo las críticas que se han venido realizando de la misma como momento de cambio de paradigma histórico, proponemos el análisis de los espacios profílmicos de la ficción como campo de investigación en el que se sintetizan las preocupaciones de una fenomenología propia del “fin de los tiempos”. Observando los ejemplos que han ido configurando el género cinematográfico hasta darle entidad propia, trataremos de explicar algunas de sus características estéticas —como las distopías temporales, la combinación de tiempos históricos o la tendencia a la cita y el pastiche— como reflejo e investigación de preocupaciones propias del momento relacionadas con discusiones propias de la filosofía de la historia y de los medios, así como de la importancia actual de la ficción como método para pensar la historia y analizar las categorías temporales.

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 153-178
Author(s):  
Soo-Jin Lee
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Author(s):  
Danielle Spencer

This book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of newly learning in adulthood of a long-standing condition. It can occur when the condition has remained undetected (e.g., colorblindness) and/or when the diagnostic categories themselves have shifted (e.g., ADHD). More broadly, it can occur with unexpected revelations bearing upon selfhood, such as surprising genetic test results. This phenomenon has received relatively scant attention, yet learning of an unknown condition is frequently a significant and bewildering revelation, subverting narrative expectations and customary categories. In addressing the topic this book deploys an evolution of narrative medicine as a robust research methodology comprising interdisciplinarity, narrative attentiveness, and creating a writerly text. Beginning with the author’s own experience of metagnosis, it explores the issues it raises—from communicability to narrative intelligibility to different ways of seeing. Next, it traces the distinctive metagnostic narrative arc through the stages of recognition, subversion, and renegotiation, discussing this trajectory in light of a range of metagnostic experiences, from Blade Runner to real-world midlife diagnoses. Finally, it situates metagnosis in relation to genetic revelations and the broader discourses concerning identity. Proposing that the figure of blindsight—drawn from the author’s metagnostic experience—offers a productive model for negotiating such revelations, the book suggests that better understanding metagnosis will not simply aid those directly affected but will also serve as a bellwether for how we will all navigate advancing biomedical and genomic knowledge, and how we may fruitfully interrogate the very notion of identity.


Author(s):  
Jason R. D'Aoust

From a background that critically investigates conceptualizations and understandings of the relations and dialectics between the inner and the outer voice and the discursive implications of the posthumanist appraisal of vocality, Jason D’Aoust examines the “operatic voice” or the vocality of opera as it is practiced and understood in the present period. From a philosophically informed perspective, D’Aoust engages with recent reappraisals of phonocentrism in voice studies, and analyzes artistic works from different genres, comprising opera (Mozart’s The Magic Flute), literature (Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), and film (Scott’s Blade Runner), in order to show how opera practitioners, authors, and film-makers use the sonorous imagination to deconstruct the canon.


2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lussier ◽  
Kaitlin Gowan
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karsten Schmidt

In addition to their visual qualities, Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER and Denis Villeneuve’s BLADE RUNNER 2049 present a profound reflection on what it means to be human under the conditions of high-tech, late capitalist information societies. The fictional scenario serves as a thought experiment: it provokes the question of what remains of being human if all traditional and modern concepts are no longer applicable. The book provides comprehensive explanations of the philosophical content and references, an analysis of their visual realization, and their background in the history of thought. It is thus also an answer to the question of whether it is possible to philosophize with films.


2011 ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
Ridley Scott
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