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From Offworld Colonies to Migration Zones: Blade Runner and the Fractured Subject of Jurisprudence

University of Western Sydney, Australia, Bldg. 1/COA, University of Western, p.hutchings{at}uws.edu.au

Looking again at Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982) — after Tampa, after 9/11 — 2019 seems all too close to 2003². Australia's Christmas Island, America's Guantànamo Bay are our offworld colonies, and the disposable "skinjobs" come in a variety of darker colours than those of Scott's film. Through a re-reading of Blade Runner, this paper argues that the theory of right which would be adequate to such a world is the right of the outlaw, for this is a world in which right is subject to power, in which state "law" undoes and exceeds its own foundations. Law, Culture and the Humanities 2007; 3: 381—397

Law, Culture and the Humanities, Vol. 3, No. 3, 381-397 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1743872107081426


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