TY - UNPB
T1 - The Future of Food in Blade Runner 2049
AU - Cawley, Diarmuid
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The science fiction genre has always been a hotbed for questions about the existence of life and what it means to be human. Food, like water and oxygen, is necessary to sustain life, but also is a key indicator of culture. One of the things that fascinates us about science fiction is how an imagined future culture might look. Blade Runner 2049, although not centred around food, interweaves food and agriculture into a dystopian narrative on evolution and a bio-engineered labour force, while asking us what it means to have memories and to be human.
AB - The science fiction genre has always been a hotbed for questions about the existence of life and what it means to be human. Food, like water and oxygen, is necessary to sustain life, but also is a key indicator of culture. One of the things that fascinates us about science fiction is how an imagined future culture might look. Blade Runner 2049, although not centred around food, interweaves food and agriculture into a dystopian narrative on evolution and a bio-engineered labour force, while asking us what it means to have memories and to be human.
U2 - 10.21427/d71v04
DO - 10.21427/d71v04
M3 - Working paper
BT - The Future of Food in Blade Runner 2049
PB - Technological University Dublin
ER -