[005] Social Science Talks: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner

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The Social Science Talks team discusses Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? today, as well as the film adaptation, Blade Runner. While the film is well known for setting the vocabulary for cyberpunk dystopias in film, the book, by Phillip K. Dick, is an insightful and compelling interrogation of the thin line that marks us as human. Covering issues such as posthumanism, religion and ethics, we follow the bounty hunter Rick Deckard on the hunt for a series of escaped androids. Is it still useful for us to refer to ourselves, or others, as human? And perhaps more importantly for the safety of us at Social Scifi Towers, is Matt an android?

https://ia902703.us.archive.org/29/items/socialsciencetalks/005BladeRunnerEdited.mp3

Contributors:

Alex Hoseason
Matthew Campbell
Dr. Carolin Kaltofen
Dyfan Powel