Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a novel by Philip K. Dick, written in 1968. Most people, with a certain knowledge on post-colonial criticism and what it is about, would claim that the book definitely incorporates certain points and areas which are often discussed within the criticism, thereby making it a piece of post-colonial fiction. Fewer people might, on the other hand, agree that the novel is also a post-human piece of fiction, simply for the fact that many points within post-human criticism go against the points of post-colonial criticism, thereby making them clash and, under most circumstances, unable to exist in the same space. Through this essay, in order to answer the research question “How do post-human and post-colonialist

Second, the posthuman view considers consciousness, regarded as the seat of human identity in the Western tradition […], as an epiphenomenon […] Third, the posthuman view thinks of the body as the original prosthesis we all learn to manipulate, so that extending or replacing the body with other prostheses becomes a continuation of a process that began before we were born. Fourth, and most important, by these and other means, the posthuman view configures human being so that it can be seamlessly articulated with intelligent machines. In the posthuman, there are no essential differences or absolute demarcations between bodily existence and computer simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot teleology and human goals.”

More accurately, it is actually the removal of information from its source that is of importance to the post-human criticism. This is meant in the same way that, in real life, nuclei, things which were previously only existent in living cells, can now be read, copied and replicated by computers which do not need the nuclei and the genetic information they possess. As such, information is taken from its

"Okay," he said, nodding. "Now consider this. You're reading a novel written in the old days before the war. The characters are visiting Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. They become hungry and enter a seafood restaurant. One of them orders lobster, and the chef drops the lobster into the tub of boiling water while the characters watch."

Post-colonial criticism also rests on the distinction between real and fake, colonizer and colonized. Post-colonialist criticism very much focuses on various aspects of colonial oppression and how it is represented in literature.

“Post-colonial theory looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial hegemony (western colonizers controlling the