Abstract
This paper examines Ridley Scot’s 1982 film Blade Runner as a cautionary tale relating to the role of law in a technology augmented environment. Blade Runner presents a regime that uses law first in order to create beings with superior abilities and pre-determined longevity, and then to define them as non-human or non-beings, devoid of legal personhood, and thus exploitable. Blade Runner, alongside other cultural representations created within the science fiction genre, serves as illustration of a society that brings together technology and law, in order to maintain unaccountable and arbitrary employment of authorized power. It provides a warning against uninhibited use of technology in order to crate genetic inferiority, and calls for careful scrutiny of the overt and covert functions of law, as new technologies gradually become available.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Human Law and Computer Law |
| Subtitle of host publication | Comparative Perspectives |
| Publisher | Springer Netherlands |
| Pages | 181-194 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789400763142 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789400763135 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2013 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences (all)
- Arts and Humanities (all)