Abstract:Identity stands as the core philosophical and cultural issue in the Blade Runner film series. Spanning 35 years, the two films use the collapse of traditional bodily and cultural boundaries in a post-human condition as their narrative backdrop. They reflect the ongoing discursive confrontations surrounding the body/identity within contemporary post-humanist debates, while exploring the crucial role of language, memory, and identity narratives in shaping identity and awakening moral agency. In doing so, the series challenges the anthropocentric view of identity and its underlying techno-consumerist cultural logic. Through the protagonists’ journeys of identity quest, the films reveal the flowing, continuous, and processual nature of identity formation and recognition. This constitutes a thought experiment that steers the essentialist notion of “human identity” toward a more open and pluralistic conception of “post-human identity”.