Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049

Calum Neill is Associate Professor of Psychoanalysis & Cultural Theory at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, and Director of Lacan in Scotland. He has written a number of monographs, including Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity (2011) and Jacques Lacan: The Basics (2017). He is the co-editor of both the Palgrave Lacan Series the three volume guide Reading Lacan’s Ecrits (2018-2021).

• Chapter 1. From Voight-Kampf Test to Baseline Test: An Introduction; Calum Neill.- Chapter 2. Do Filminds Dream of Celluloid Sheep? Lacan, Filmosophy and Blade Runner 2049; Ben Tyrer.- Chapter 3. A View of Post-Human Capitalism; Slavoj Zizek.- Chapter 4. Between the Capitalist and the Cop; Todd McGowan.- Chapter 5. The Phantom of the Sinthome and the Joi of Sex; Daniel Bristow.- Chapter 6. Home Bodies; Timothy Richardson.- Chapter 7. Object Oriented Subjectivity; Matthew Flisfeder.- Chapter 8. Extimate Replicants; Alex Bove.- Chapter 9. In Anxious Anticipation Of Our Imminent Obsolescence; Scott M Koterbay.- Chapter 10. ‘Before We Even Know What We Are, We Fear to Lose It’: The Missing Object of the Primal Scene; Isabel Millar.- Chapter 11. Women Between Worlds: A Psychoanalysis of Sex in Blade Runner 2049; Sheila Kunkle.