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Episode 116: On 'Blade Runner'

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The Postmodern Idea of Desensored Subjectivity

The idea of subjectivity has been under assault for more than the century by Paul Burecher's masters of suspicion, Freud. The postmoderns radicalized these ideas and saying that there is no there there that the centered psyche isn't just like a part of the psyche, like the ego. It's a fiction all the way down. So if I were looking at Blade Runner now in 2022, one thing I would want to do would be to start questioning some of those assumptions.

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