Segregating the Chickenheads: Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Post/humanism of the American Eugenics Movement

Authors

  • Adam Pottle University of Saskatchewan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v33i3.3229

Keywords:

Eugenics, Philip K. Dick, America, science fiction, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Abstract

This essay reads Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as a critique of the American eugenics movement. Replete with historical allusions and satiric wordplay, Dick's novel condemns the eugenics movement as eliminating disability, diminishing human diversity, discouraging empathy, and ushering in harmful posthuman ideas before their time.

 

Keywords:

Eugenics; Philip K. Dick; America; Science fiction; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

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Published

2013-05-23

How to Cite

Pottle, A. (2013). Segregating the Chickenheads: Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Post/humanism of the American Eugenics Movement. Disability Studies Quarterly, 33(3). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v33i3.3229

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 3 (2013): Double Issue: Museum experience and blindness; general issue

Section

Humanities, Arts, and Media

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Copyright (c) 2013 Adam Pottle