This libidinal wasteland to where our emotions have been jettisoned lies beyond the borders, beyond answerability, and beyond the mirror.  Here, there is only freedom and risk.  The android-human pursuit outside the margins is therefore more than a ruined vacation, even more than a high moral, important as it is, that a liberatory technology tied to consumerism is not only never liberatory, it is dangerous; the chasing/fleeing that begins in the Symbolic—-in Westworld, Medieval World, and Roman World—-transgresses the Imaginary, and ultimately approaches the Real, is foremost an antagonism between voices, a negotiation between ego and ego-ideal, or, in Lacanian terms, the mediation of a split subject and master signifier (Bracher 112).  It is the latter in which I am especially interested, that is, the master signifier that the “subject has invested his or her identity in [. . .] identified with (or against) and that thus constitutes a powerful positive or negative value” (111).