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"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip.K.Dick - Coggle…
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip.K.Dick
Science fiction---1968
1992---2021 (futuristic setting)
Dystopian Fiction
Post-apocalyptic world---
Rick Deckard---protagonist
bounty hunter---who is hired by the police to "retire"(kill) the andriods.
Earth---destroyed by a nuclear war---World War Terminus
Conflict---Humans vs. Androids
Humans vs. Technology
Rosen Association---create/manufacture androids
Nexus 6 androids
escape Mars and hide on Earth. Deckard is tasked to find and kill them.
Androids---resemble humans
Test---tests empathy---animal cruelty
Empathy---distinguishing factor b/w humans and androids
next to no animals left on the Earth because of the war. Rare commodity---only rich people can afford to have ''real" animals.
electric fake sheep
electric fake animals---poor/middle-class
Iran---Deckard's wife
wants to spend the money to buy a real animal ( a goat)
Philosophical questions---real and artificial??
Issues: alternate realities, virtual realities, identities, simulacra, human nature---morality (right and wrong?)---
Rachel Rosen
an android
Themes
Humanity---what it means to be human?
Artificiality
Isolation, Empathy, Connection
Capitalism---Consumerism
John Isidore
lives alone in an apartment---
6 androids are hiding in Isidore's building---
helping the androids---
mentally-limited human---low IQ
Context
World War II
Nazi Germany, accounts of concentration camps---
The Cold War
Science Fiction
Robotics, Cyberculture---technological advancements
Cybernetics---Norbert Wiener