Blade Runner, pós-modernidade e totalitarismo

Blade Runner and the Postmodern: A Reconsideration

The ambivalence implicit in the two versions of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982; "Director's Cut," 1992) echoes the diverse and divided critical responses to the film(s). Indeed, this film about authenticity and simulation has been so thoroughly interpreted and rewritten—by even its director—that a naive return to the "original" is, perhaps fittingly, untenable. This essay does not advance a ...

Blade Runner economics: Will innovation lead the economic recovery?

According to Schumpeterian theories, economic expansions are associated with the introduction of successful new products, processes and services while depressions are linked to stagnant periods with few innovations. Can the economic crisis set in motion in 2008 be explained by the inability to innovate and upgrade production? And, conversely, will an economic recovery require a new stream of in...

Post - transplantation osteoporosis Osteoporose pós - transplante

Transplantation is an established therapy for many hematologic disorders as well as for endstage diseases of the kidney, lung, liver, heart among others. Osteoporosis and a high incidence of fragility fractures have emerged as a complication of organ transplantation. Many factors contribute to the pathogenesis of osteoporosis following organ transplantation. In addition, most patients have some...

Memórias da alma e do corpo. A Misericórdia de Setúbal na modernidade

industry. William had always shown the greatest interest in the technical side of the business and was the originator of the first fire-proof construction in England. He now had the opportunity of planning hospital accommodation for eighty patients besides those with infectious diseases. In the Infirmary he introduced day-rooms for convalescents, a number of wards with only two or three beds, a...

Pensamento tecnológico e criatividade na comunicação: prospecções acerca do pós-humano e da prática gráfica do rafe