Blade Runner e o Caçador de Androides: as narrativas da (pós) humanidade no gênero da ficção científica

Abstract

The classic Science Fiction movie, Blade Runner, had its premiere in 1982. This film, directed by Ridley Scott, is an script adaptation of Science Fiction novel Do androids dream of electric sheep? (1968), written by American Philip K. Dick. In both works the android is highlighted by questioning the “man-machine” boundary, principally evidenced in the film adaptation, when it shows itself “more human than human”. From the controversial figure of the android, presented in different ways in Science Fiction, we attempted to discuss about the post-humanity, as the nature has no limits (SIBILIA, 2002) and the borders between man-nature and machine-technology are crossing in the process of cyborgization of humanity (HARAWAY, 2009), both in film and literature. In order to present the nuances between modes of narration and presentation, we appealed to the use of the concepts of adaptation as a phenomenon and intertextual product (HUTCHEON, 2013), and the intermidiality, as crossing of borders between media (RAJEWSKY, 2012).