the last thing I typed last night before passing out
In her essay “Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia,” Judith Kerman writes: “In a marvelous bit of technological self-reflection, several of the main characters in the film collect and treasure family photographs, including replicants Leon and Rachael, who use photos of friends or supposed family as talismans against their own lack of human connection.”
And although Kerman’s essay was published in 1991, we do the very same thing now: we publish entire photographic histories on social networks, “proving” the digital versions of our made-up identities. Life is no rudderless hypertext narrative drift; instead, we suppose, it ought to be a linear march, and we refer to the direct A-to-Z of our lives as a “timeline.”
