And, just for laughs, to Marx’s chapter in Capital explaining primitive capital accumulation also Frederic Jameson’s theory of Postmodernism as ‘the cultural logic of late capitalism.’ This then led me to reflect on how these themes are developed in other scenes of the film. I’m interested in how it weaves together themes of slavery, female subjugation, and capitalist expansion. It still seems to me to be a moving portrayal of exploitation, rather than exploitative in itself. ![]() ![]() Re-watching Blade Runner 2049, I was struck again by the tragedy and politics of the scene where the robo-tech CEO orders a new replicant female ‘born’ and then slays her.
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