Prosthetic Memory: TOTAL RECALL and BLADE RUNNER

'''Landsberg, Alison. "Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner."' In Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Development''. Roger Burrows and Mike Featherstone, eds. London: SAGE, 1995. Online Publication Date: 31 May 31.

From BrockWiki, "Prosthetic Memory: An Introduction" Prosthetic memory is a concept put forth by Alison Landsberg in her article “Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner.” This concept is particularly relevant in terms of examining the ways that different forms of media have contributed to the era of the posthuman. As Landsberg explains, “By prosthetic memories I mean memories which do not come from a person’s lived experience in any strict sense.”[... p. 175] When someone views, for example, a film or television program, they have a memory of the narrative events which transpired without actually having experienced those events in any manner. [...] Media technologies make it possible for human beings to possess, like the replicants of Blade Runner, vivid memories of experiences that are not their own.

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