NOTE: This episode contains spoilers. If you haven’t seen the film yet, you might want to hit pause and come back when you’re ready.

This episode explores Blade Runner through Alison Landsberg’s theory of prosthetic memory.

In a future where memories are manufactured and identity is built from fiction,

the question isn’t whether your past is real—it’s whether it feels real enough to matter.

Because in Blade Runner, the soul may be synthetic,

but the sorrow is always genuine.

Learn more about prosthetic memory in Alison Landsberg’s Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture.