Settling in with this tonight #mscidel Philip K. Dick – A Day In The Afterlife (complete): http://t.co/uJTaDaeKwd via @YouTube
— Miles Prowse (@mychioiles) January 12, 2015
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January 12, 2015 at 11:37PM
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Literary texts, are of course, not merely passive conduits, they actively shape what the technologies mean and what the science signifies in cultural contexts…culture circulates through science no less than science circulates through culture. The heart that keeps this circulatory system flowing is narrative- narratives about culture, narratives within culture, narratives about science, narratives within science… Several Philip K Dick novels… from 1962 to 1966 (including we can build you, Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) Dr Blood Money (1965) and UBIK (1969)) provide another set of texts through which the multiple implications of the post human can be explored. Towards embodied virtuality”: How we became posthuman (Hayles,1999)
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