Ramble City: Postmodernism and "Blade Runner" Giuliana Bruno October, Vol. 41. (Summer, 1987), pp. 61-74.
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GIULIANA B R U N O

"History is hysterical: it is constituted only if we consider it, only if we look at it-and in order to look at it we must be excluded from it. . . . That is what the time when my mother was alive before me is-History. No anamnesis could ever make me glimpse this time starting from myself- whereas, contemplating a photograph in which she is hugging me, a child, against her, I can waken in