Dr Calum Neill C.Neill@napier.ac.uk
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From Voight-Kampff to Baseline Test: By Way of an Introduction
Neill, Calum
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Dr Calum Neill C.Neill@napier.ac.uk
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Abstract
Focusing the differences between the famous Voight-Kampff test of the original Blade Runner film and the apparently more straightforward Baseline test of Blade Runner 2049, this essay seeks to draw out some key conceptual shifts in emphasis between the two films and thus paves the way for the various essays to follow. Where the Voight-Kampff test might be understood to foreground memory and the replicants’ gap in personal experience and connection, it also rests on a logic of anticipation which is absent from the more clinical Baseline test. This absence points to an absence of hope, a lack which then motivates a potentially revolutionary dimension in the second film, in contrast to the romantically impotent revolt of the first film.
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Neill, C. (2021). From Voight-Kampff to Baseline Test: By Way of an Introduction. In C. Neill (Ed.), Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049 (1-11). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56754-5_1
Online Publication Date | Dec 19, 2020 |
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Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | Dec 1, 2021 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 1-11 |
Book Title | Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049 |
ISBN | 978-3-030-56753-8 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56754-5_1 |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2807909 |
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