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Finn, Richelle V. "“More Human Than Human”: Lacan’s Mirror Stage Theory and Posthumanism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2460.
Full textPiacentini, Gustavo. "Reificação na ficção científica norte-americana dos anos 60: uma análise do foco narrativo de Do Androids dream of electric sheep? de Philip K. Dick." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-06102011-134910/.
Full textThis dissertation aims to investigate the socio-historical materials of the North American 60s materialized in the Philip K. Dicks science fiction novel Do androids dream of electric sheep? by analyzing its point of view, mostly. Although it is not considered one of Dicks finest novels, the work presents a very refined diagnosis of the limits of the available experiences of the decade.
Walsh, Ryan Nicholas. "The Agency and Empathy of Non-Human Others : How Non-Human Agency Anticipates the Anthropocene in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37606.
Full textWilson, Mark Robert. "Historicizing Maps of Hell." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1115503544.
Full textJohansson, Magnus. "Do Non Player Characters dream of electric sheep? : A thesis about Players, NPCs, Immersion and Believability." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-89293.
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Ju, Huang Yin, and 黃吟如. "Postmodern Imaginations of the Science Fiction:Do Androids Dream of an Electric Sheep?" Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u9db56.
Full text國立臺東大學
兒童文學研究所
97
This thesis aims to analyze the science fiction Do Androids Dream of an Electric Sheep? written by Philip K Dick in 1968. In the fiction, the nuclear war ruined the earth seriously. This research adopts the postmodern theories of Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson, attempting to analyze the theoretical structures and the plots of the phenomenon in postmodern capitalistic society of the text. This research begins with discussions about the sources, characteristics and cultural phenomena of postmodern, then analyzes the postmodern society phenomenon of the text, and finds out that there are several postmodern characteristics in the text: scientific developments cause the alienation of relationships, the scarcity of animals, and the commodity fetishism. Mass media are under the control of Multinational Corporations, and the popular appropriation makes individuals materialized and commercialized. In addition, by the interaction and argumentation of the human/ replicant, the research treats of the entity of the human and the subjectivity in postmodern, and draws the conclusion that the subjectivity has been collapsed. In the other way, the research tries to explain blurred border between human/ replicant, reality/illusion with the ‘simulacra’ theory from Jean Baudrillard, and tries to make the suggestions in postmodern simulacra society that the way how individuals confirm their self-identities and religion-identities in which the believes have been questioned.
Livshits, Rita. "Does Ishiguro dream of electric sheep? : androids as a distinctive emergent phenomenon in Japan." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7516.
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Hsu, Fang Jui, and 許方睿. "Empathy and the Distinction between Humans and Androids in Philip Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68528264135445390464.
Full text中國文化大學
英國語文學系
103
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel first published in 1968, by an American writer, Philip K. Dick, also well known as the primary basis for the movie Blade Runner. The novel has consistently questioned the manifestations of humanity through the struggle and confusion when both Rick Deckard, a Bounty hunter accomplishing his mission to hunt down escaped androids and John Isidore, an lonesome outcast lives far away from the crowd getting along with androids and the conclusion they make to realize what is the true nature of life. This thesis will examine the reliability of “empathy” —an idea considered to be a most important factor of human identity from ideas and examples given in the story to distinguish between human and non-human. The first chapter introduces the author, the novel, and the existential questions posed by the novel regarding the relationship between man and machine as well as the increasingly unstable human identity, which depends on the problematic criterion of empathy. The second chapter will examine the definition of empathy in order to find out the role it plays in the novel, to analyze how is it used to distinguish humans and androids, whether it can be used as a standard without doubt, and problems that destabilize its validity as can be found in the novel. In light of the problems of empathy reflected in the second chapter, the third chapter will focus on how Philip Dick redefines the meanings of and the boundary between humans and androids. Based on Dick’s own reflections on humanity and the so-called “androidization”—a dehumanized process that can happen to anyone, the chapter will analyze the blurring of human-android distinction in the novel. In conclusion, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? makes us go beyond the boundaries of human and non-human, and obtain new cognitions of life.
Polyrakis, Anastasia. "Explorations of identity in Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep?" Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7981.
Full textLingya, Lindsay, and 黃鈴雅. "Panopticon Society in Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of an Electric Sheep?" Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45847156193194563069.
Full text國立中正大學
外國文學所
93
The purpose of this thesis is to propose that our society is a Foucauldian Panopticon. By examining Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner movie and its original novel Do Androids Dream of an Electric Sheep? written by Philip K. Dick, we can have not only the sketch of 2019 L.A. society, but also similar images of that in the twenty-first century. Thus, the discussion in this thesis will reveal the striking resemblance between the society of both texts and our society. This thesis is divided mainly into three chapters. In the Introduction, the motivation and research methods will be introduced. In Chapter One, Foucault’s analysis of Bentham’s Panopticon and his own development of Panopticism will be presented. In Chapter Two and Three, Foucault’s Panopticism will be applied to discuss both texts of the original novel Do Androids Dream of an Electric Sheep? and its visualized movie Blade Runner to prove that our society can be regarded as a Panopticon, a so-called Carceral Society. Finally, the Conclusion summarizes the main points of the previous chapters.
Jui-HsinChen and 陳瑞欣. "Empathy and Ethics with(out) Boundaries in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q4a7v2.
Full text國立成功大學
外國語文學系
102
Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) imagines a near future post-nuclear-war world where human beings suffer from the degeneration of organic living beings and are simultaneously limited by the overflow of simulacra in their daily lives. Through the response of protagonists Rick Deckard and John R. Isidore to the post-apocalyptic world, Dick lays bare the instability resulting from the confusion and the collapse of the obvious physical distinctions between fakes and genuine creatures. The entropic environment drives human beings to develop advanced technology until the hyperreal society is overwhelmed with simulacra. The blurred physical boundaries between (in)authentic animals and most importantly androids and human beings question the metaphysical boundaries of humanity. Human empathy becomes as the basis on which to redefine the rigid boundaries against artificial beings arbitrarily settled by human beings on the one hand but on the other hand, the source of possibilities for ethical relations between human beings and different kinds of “the other.” Empathy is originally the significant capability to acknowledge and to maintain the boundaries lying across the ethical relations between “I” and “Others.” Yet the self-realization of such a capability is exactly the key to humans’ desire to break through such boundaries in the ethical relation with others, and also the means to help people to figure out their own identities and inevitable responsibilities. Empathy evoked from the other (non-human creatures), therefore, serves as the core element—or to say a foundation of ethics—to help people rediscover the value of living and of humanity.
Johnson, Michael B., and 鄭瑞可. "Homopoiesis: The Process of Human in Artificial Evolution within Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Blade Runner." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/995g9g.
Full text國立東華大學
英美語文學系
102
Abstract The quest for human identity is a recurring theme in the works of American science fiction author Philip K Dick, inspiring blockbuster movies such as Blade Runner, Minority Report, and Total Recall. Through the transport of his 1968 provocative seminal science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick intricately juxtaposes humans with anthropomorphic humanoids, a symbolic representation or epitome of other, and repeatedly challenges his readers: Are humans really more ‘humanistic’ than artificial other? This thesis contributes to discourse on the definition of ‘human’ by analysing the depictions of human and other in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Sir Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, cross-referencing the impact of bio-mechanical evolution on the evolution of humanity. I will introduce ‘human’ both as the first Earthly species capable of engineering its own evolution and as an evolutionary process rather than an entity, and contend that biomechanical human, the Homopoietic species of human, will reign for a short time during the next phase of ‘human,’ before it in turn is replaced by a nonbiological Homopoietic ‘human.’ The purpose of the thesis is therefore to invite readers onto a pilgrimage of rediscovery and redefinition of what ‘human’ is.
Chen, Kuan-Yin, and 陳冠吟. "The Essence of Existence: An Existential Reading of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b232d3.
Full text國立中山大學
外國語文學系研究所
107
Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? presents a post-apocalyptic, heavily polluted world in the futuristic city of San Francisco, in which the survival of all beings has been put to the test. The setting of the story not only serves as the background against which characters struggle with their everyday life but also serves a symbolic meaning that reflects the characters’ degenerating state of being. This struggle and ecological degeneration at the same time reinforce the existential struggle that has been made concrete since the outbreak of World War Terminus. This thesis analyzes the novel with concepts developed by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, concepts such as “bad faith,” “being-for-itself,” and “being-in-itself.” The existential moment in major characters and the actions each character takes when encountering those crucial moments reveal the process of human being retrograding under the influence of “bad faith” into beings with a fixed purpose of existence. The hierarchical yet interconnected relationship between humans, androids, and animals also reveals the difference between various types of beings in the novel on an existential level, and their interactions with the surrounding environment define each being’s essence of existence.
Tseng, Wen-ling, and 曾文玲. "Body Monstrosity: A Cyborg Reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72854698242788150484.
Full text國立中興大學
外國語文學系所
95
Abstract The motif of body monstrosity in both Frankenstein and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? reveals the consequence of social construct. This thesis aims at analyzing body monstrosity by way of Donna Haraway''s cyborg theory to illustrate the body as a site in-between nature/culture. The body is a site which is constructed and reconstructed by social power. In cyborg’s perspective, the body has the rebellious power to problematize the social construction. In Frankenstein, the Monster is the “proto-cyborg,” the first product embodiment of technology and science. First, its monstrous body dissolves the gender boundary. Second, the Monster’s body is marked by language. It uses language which marks it as other to fight against its creator, surviving as a cyborg fighter in-between-ness. Its body shows the rebellious power to the dominant dualism. Also, it reveals the problematic classification and categorization of language. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? illustrates the shift from humanism to posthumanism, which breaks down the human-centered illusion. The body has been infiltrated with technology and science. Mass media become an inculcating ideology cooperating with capitalism, together they serve as the powerful social construct. The replicant, Roy Baty, is shaped as a savior figure who breaks down the human-centered illusion. Another replicant, Rachael Rosen, uses her body a tool to undermine capitalism and the Rosen Association to rescue those rebellious replicants. Her construction is tinged with monstrosity, a result deriving from the advanced technology of science. She, therefore, problematizes the myth of science, the classification of language, and the idea of unified subject believed by humans. She makes us cyborg; she is one of us, and we are her.
Liu, Junyu. "Does Richard Feynman Dream of Electric Sheep? Topics on Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Computing, and Computer Science." Thesis, 2021. https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/14142/1/main-bibtex.pdf.
Full textIn this thesis, we mainly discuss three topics in theoretical physics: a proof of the weak gravity conjecture, a basic statement in the string theory landscape using the black hole entropy, solving the critical O(3) model using the conformal bootstrap method involving semidefinite programming, and numerical simulation of the false vacuum decay using tensor network methods. Those topics cover different approaches to deep understanding of quantum field theories using concepts and methods of information theory, and computer science with classical and quantum computations.