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Ursula Hentschlaeger
Zelko Wiener

Vice Versa. Mediatised Projections in the Worlds of Science-Fiction Movies
1998

This work aimed at focusing on a mediatised notion of the mirror, which can mainly be defined on the basis of distinctions: If, in visions of the future, the traditional mirror still serves as
1. an instrument of observation, self-knowledge and exposure, and
2. as a means to condense interior worlds and dream worlds then the "new" ways of mirroring, which are eventally always mediatised project-ions, find their equivalents in
3. digital instruments (of control) or as
4. constructions of reality in a fictitious cyberspace.
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BACKGROUND
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OBSERVATION
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Summary

Some of the films discussed here fulfil more than the one criterion under which they have been subsumed. Thus, the idea of the "replicant" in Blade Runner places the movie in a category that has to do with the issue of biological mirroring which has not been dealt with here but is nonetheless one of today's most explosive issues. The interesting thing about compiling the material for the CD-ROM was that most of the films contain aspects relating to the mirror theme. The question as to whether the phenomenon of the mirror was still relevant in visions of the future was answered by the reception of the movies itself. After all, how should the mirror, which looks back on such a long epistemological history, lose its importance? Mirror images like the ones supplied by scans, or information archives, for that matter, are certainly not limited to science fiction, and they offer fundamental and burning complexes of problems which are to do with dynamism in society.


Contribution, in: Ohne Spiegel leben ("Living without a mirror"), ed. Manfred Faßler, Fink 2000
INTRERIORWORLD
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CONTROL
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CONSTRUCTION
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CONCLUSION
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