Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | John Isidore, Special | Spec Fiction Studies

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This is a video in my new Speculative Fiction Studies series, which examines and analyses key aspects of classic and contemporary works in the genres that fall under the broad rubric of speculative fiction. This includes fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, weird, cyberpunk, utopian, post-apocalyptic, and superhero fiction, among other genres
This video focuses on Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (adapted as the movie The Blade Runner). It discusses the character John R Isidore, who has been recently classified as a "special". He is ineligible for emigration to the colonies, lives by himself in an apartment building in the suburbs, and holds a job as a driver for a false/electric animal hospital. A number of the chapters of the novel focus on Isidore, particularly once he begins interacting with three of the androids the bounty hunter Deckard is seeking.
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[@mrkshply]

The humans in the story always came off as detached to me. They feel empathy -in whatever that means- but an intrinsic quality of connection is unfungibleness of people and animals. My dog died last year but I don't want another one because any other dog, while great, would not be my dog. I want her uniqueness back. Same with people. But the humans in the novel never really seem attached to their animals; they just buy them and tend to them, the whole thing feeling performative. The only characters that seem truly connected are Rush (squirrel) and Isidore (real and fake life). Do you agree with this point of view? Do you think this a way for Dick to blur the lines between humans and androids? Really loving this series btw

[@GregoryBSadler]

You'll need to reread it, then, to see where the humans in the story actually do display empathy. It's there.

[@mrkshply]

@@GregoryBSadler oh no. I have to read PKD again. Tragedy! 😆 I'll look for it. It's been years since I read it so maybe I didn't pick up on it. Or maybe.... I'm an android! Lol

[@natedaug1]

Good vid.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks