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Page 342
... android to remind us of the growing risks to our humanity in an increasingly mechanized society . In the novel , the androids are not so much not - human as inhuman . As we have seen , the crucial difference is the ability to feel ...
... android to remind us of the growing risks to our humanity in an increasingly mechanized society . In the novel , the androids are not so much not - human as inhuman . As we have seen , the crucial difference is the ability to feel ...
Page 348
... Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? and allow it to be replaced by the screenplay of Blade Run- ner . Dick refused . " 1 5. Much popular art serves to maintain the status quo by stimulating our repressed hopes and fears ; and then ...
... Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? and allow it to be replaced by the screenplay of Blade Run- ner . Dick refused . " 1 5. Much popular art serves to maintain the status quo by stimulating our repressed hopes and fears ; and then ...
Page 351
... androids . Dick makes it clear that his androids , no matter how sympathetic some of them appear , are radically evil because they lack souls . The movie , ironically , takes a more humanistic approach to the androids , or Replicants ...
... androids . Dick makes it clear that his androids , no matter how sympathetic some of them appear , are radically evil because they lack souls . The movie , ironically , takes a more humanistic approach to the androids , or Replicants ...
Contents
runners Narrative Blending | 21 |
Florian F Marzin Science Fiction and Censorship | 60 |
INTERVIEW | 68 |
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