SUBJECT AND MEMORY IN “ZIMA BLUE”

(EPISODE OF LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS)

Abstract

The essay addresses the relationship between subject and memory in the episode “Zima Blue”, from the series Love Death + Robots. In the aforementioned program, a being who places himself as undefined among the human, cyborg and extraterrestrial categories enjoys the artistic prestige typical of the idealization of the romantic artist. Such recognition does not undermine the melancholy sobriety of the protagonist, who launches himself into an artistic-transcendental quest. In view of this, the notion of subject will be approached in the episode, having as a starting point the division of Stuart Hall in The question of Cultural identity: the Cartesian, the sociological and the postmodern man seem to be vague “epigraphs” of this being in which art and a supposed transcendental are impulses to deal with unmemory.