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Introduction Rather than use a number of different texts for this examination, I have decided to use one text, and to evaluate the different emotional, cognitive and empathic experience of the end user in its different forms. In this case these are the novel, the film, and the DVD release of the film. The text I intend to use is that of Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Philip K. Dick was an American author, who between 1952 and his death in 1982 wrote a huge volume of work, mostly concentrating on, as Brian Aldiss comments in his book, Trillion Year Spree: “…frail, often inadequate protagonists… knee-deep in technological kipple, gazing at visions beyond their comprehension” “Do Androids Dream…” was written in 1968, and explores the empathic relationship between man and machine, in an entropic, dystopian future. The novel was adapted for cinema in 1982, forming the basis of Ridley Scotts “Blade Runner”. Although the film was initially a failure, it has since gained what can best be described as a cult following, enhanced with the release in 1992 of the directors cut. The central character of the text is Rick Deckard, a policeman (or Blade Runner) brought out of retirement to “retire” four (or five, or six depending on the part of the film. This is often described as “Ridley’s deliberate mistake”) replicants. These are artificially created humans, genetically engineered for specific jobs in off world colonies. It quickly becomes apparent though, that the boundaries defining who, or indeed what, is human are far from clear. |
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