
Zed Adams
Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research; Vice President of Technology; Co-Director of the Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities
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Jun 12, 2026
167. Blade Runner (w/ Zed Adams)
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Zed AdamsGUEST
It has this footage repurposed from B-roll shot for The Shining, um, of a kind of bucolic forest, uh, you know, nature, and up until that point, up- all we've seen is this dystopian LA.

Zed AdamsGUEST
And then the third thing is there's the insertion of, of, um, Deckard having a dream of a unicorn running through the forest, which on the standard reading establishes definitively that Deckard himself is a replicant.

Zed AdamsGUEST
And I wanna just begin by, uh, proposing that the question of whether Deckard is a replicant is kind of orthogonal to the main themes of the movie.

Zed AdamsGUEST
Um, and this is a kind of problem I have with the, the Final Cut that it, it emphasizes that so decisively.
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