1. [clips for lecture] Frankenstein conquers the World opening scene I'm kind of nervous when i take tests

2. Deckard meets Rachel It's too bright in here "It's not an easy thing to meet your maker...”[short clip] I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

3. BLADE RUNNER

4. Blade Runner as New Frankenstein? “Romantic”: Creation Story/Myth (ambivalence) Going to the Limit (crossing the line) Loner (Master as Maker? Wanderer?) “Gothic”: Ghost Story: the undead, what remains Anxiety, uncertainty, dread: what is “it”?

5. Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” (1818)

6. Caspar David Friedrich, “The Abbey in the Oakwood” (1810)

7. Blade Runner: In The (Dark) City The City as Character: Setting the Scene, or Imagining the “Situation” The City at Night: A World of Smoke and Shadows The City as Under-World: the “other” “Cosmopolitanism” The City at Work: Industrial Revolution (Day becomes Night)

8. Dowlais Ironworks, George Childs (1840)

9. J.M.W. Turner, “Rain Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway” (1844)

10. J.M.W. Turner, “The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 1834”

11. The City as “end” of Civilization? Progress and The City in Ruins: Imagining the remains of Civilization Thomas Cole, “The Course of Empire” (1834-36) The City of Ghosts: alienated labor “I just do eyes”; “Do you feel exploited?” The City as Dystopia: bringing out what’s hidden within the present, or off to the ‘side’

12. Cole, “The Savage State”

13. Cole, “The Arcadian or Pastoral State”

14. Cole, “The Consummation of Empire”

15. Cole, “Destruction”

16. Cole, “Desolation”

17. Who’s the Man? Roy Batty Roy Batty: “More Human than Human”? “That’s what it is to be a slave”: work + fear = a truly independent consciousness? “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…” Beauty and transmission: whose experience is it? “If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes” If they’re not “his eyes,” then Who/What is the “I”?

18. Who’s the Man? Rick Deckard Working for the Man: “You’ve done a Man’s job sir” Who/What is Deckard? Human or Replicant? Master or Slave? Both? (Neither?) What would Kant say about Deckard’s situation? What would Hegel say? What does the ending suggest about: Deckard’s identity, his character, his development?