Mosaic (Winnipeg), March 1st, 2007
Criticism on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has focused on androids and ignored animals. The novel's ethical concerns are best understood through animal studies, revealing political deployments of the species boundary to disenfranchise certain humans. The novel suggests another model of subjectivity best understood through Marx's "species being."
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Central to Philip K. Dick's fiction is the question of what it means to be human, a question generally explored through the opposition between "authentic" human beings and various artificial beings made to imitate humans. Do Andro...
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