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Janus’s Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg—Autopoiēsis in Christopher Nolan’s Memento

  • White D
Springer International Publishing, (2018), 15-55
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_2
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Abstract

This chapter argues that Leonard Shelby, protagonist of Memento, is a model of selfhood in the Anthropocene. His subjectivity is self-reflexive as he, despite impaired memory, shapes his identity and course of action in a recurring cycle of signs. Recording clues by Polaroid …

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White, D. (2018). Janus’s Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg—Autopoiēsis in Christopher Nolan’s Memento. In Film in the Anthropocene (pp. 15–55). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_2

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