From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep?
Philip K. Dick takes the highly computerized but ruined Los Angeles of the United States after the post-apocalyptic war as the background and brings the cyberspace struggle between androids and humans as the novel's theme, sketching a cyberpunk society in which humans and androids fight against...
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| author | Mi, Chen Omar, Noritah Zainal, Zainor Izat Awang, Mohammad Ewan |
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| description | Philip K. Dick takes the highly computerized but ruined Los Angeles of the United States after the post-apocalyptic war as the background and brings the cyberspace struggle between androids and humans as the novel's theme, sketching a cyberpunk society in which humans and androids fight against each other. The novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? invites people to think about cyberspace and human-androids subjectivity. Inspired by Slavoj Zizek's critical theory of cyberspace, this paper uses this science-fiction force as a text to explore how contemporary American science fiction reconstructs a revolutionary human-androids subject in cyberspace, challenging human subjectivity in the urban space. Faced with human-android coexistence, Dick affirms the coexistence of multiple subjects using equal dialogue, fully exploits the advantages of androids and humans, and constructs the subject with human-androids. Through an in-depth study of androids, this paper concludes that in a human-androids coexistence space, humans and androids should not be in a master-slave relationship; instead, they are each other's constitutive Other. Humans should try to break the boundary between self and others to accept a pluralistic and open subject. |
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| spelling | upm-1080622024-09-26T03:49:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/108062/ From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? Mi, Chen Omar, Noritah Zainal, Zainor Izat Awang, Mohammad Ewan Philip K. Dick takes the highly computerized but ruined Los Angeles of the United States after the post-apocalyptic war as the background and brings the cyberspace struggle between androids and humans as the novel's theme, sketching a cyberpunk society in which humans and androids fight against each other. The novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? invites people to think about cyberspace and human-androids subjectivity. Inspired by Slavoj Zizek's critical theory of cyberspace, this paper uses this science-fiction force as a text to explore how contemporary American science fiction reconstructs a revolutionary human-androids subject in cyberspace, challenging human subjectivity in the urban space. Faced with human-android coexistence, Dick affirms the coexistence of multiple subjects using equal dialogue, fully exploits the advantages of androids and humans, and constructs the subject with human-androids. Through an in-depth study of androids, this paper concludes that in a human-androids coexistence space, humans and androids should not be in a master-slave relationship; instead, they are each other's constitutive Other. Humans should try to break the boundary between self and others to accept a pluralistic and open subject. Academy Publication 2023 Article PeerReviewed Mi, Chen and Omar, Noritah and Zainal, Zainor Izat and Awang, Mohammad Ewan (2023) From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 13 (12). 3157 -3165. ISSN 1799-2591; ESSN: 2053-0692 https://tpls.academypublication.com/index.php/tpls/issue/view/527 10.17507/tpls.1312.13 |
| spellingShingle | Mi, Chen Omar, Noritah Zainal, Zainor Izat Awang, Mohammad Ewan From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? |
| title | From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? |
| title_full | From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? |
| title_fullStr | From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? |
| title_full_unstemmed | From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? |
| title_short | From urban space to cyberspace: A research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? |
| title_sort | from urban space to cyberspace: a research on spatial writing and human-android relations in do androids dream of electric sheep? |
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