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Avatars: between replicants and androids; the human being abandons himself

The film Blade Runner is one of the most notorious examples in which robots, with human apa- rience and built in laboratories with some genetic material, are posited in fiction as a plausible substitute for people.

Communication on screens since the 1980s has undergone a massive acceleration with the irruption of mobile phones, the popularisation of the internet and, finally, the widespread use of artificial intelligence. The construction of science fiction narratives increasingly resembles contemporary communicative reality.

What are the causes that have given rise to the human interest or need to substitute oneself; what evidence can we find of this in different media and finally what consequences might begin to emerge.

Through different theoretical contributions and practical examples, it concludes a progressive and exponentially growing presence of human alienation through avatars, replicants and substitutes on the screens of the different media.

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