Philip Dick's Androids and Humans | Worlds Of Speculative Fiction (lecture 64)

Enroll in the 10 week Philip K Dick's Philosophical Novels course (starting May 30) - https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/pk-d... Enroll in the FREE online class, Worlds of Speculative Fiction - https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/worl... We have restarted the Worlds of Speculative Fiction lecture/discussion series in a new online monthly format. Each session will have a roughly 90-minute video (this one is longer, though!), which will be premiered (allowing chat interaction between viewers and myself). Then immediately following that, we will have a Zoom videoconferencing session, where we'll continue the discussion. This session focuses on the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and on the theme of androids or simulacra and humans in his works. The three novels we focus on in particular are Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Simulacra, and We Can Build You (we also briefly mention The Martian Time-Slip and A Scanner Darkly). We also reference Dick's address The Android and the human, some of his interviews, and the Exegesis We discuss the narrative universe of his stories, his intentions and ideas in worldbuilding, the key characters, the timeline, and several philosophical themes of the works You can get the works referenced in this video here: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - https://amzn.to/3tk43LM The Simulacra - https://amzn.to/3DXJWb7 We Can Build You - https://amzn.to/3A81DDz The Exegesis - https://amzn.to/3DSgW4w The intro and outro music for this video is "Juno In The space Maze" by Loopop, made available in the public domain by YouTube Audio Library Authors we have covered in the series so far are J.R..R. Tolkein, A.E. Van Vogt, C.S. Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Leguin, Michael Moorcock, Philip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, George R.R. Martin, Philip Jose Farmer, Madeline L'Engle, Douglas Adams, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Iain Banks, H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, C.L. Moore, Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, Arthur Clarke, Robert Howard, Gene Wolfe, C. J. Cherryh, Jack Vance, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll, Tanith Lee, Gordon Dickson, August Derleth, Karl Edward Wagner, Aldous Huxley, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, China Mieville, Walter Miller, Cordwainer Smith, Liu Cixin, R. Scott Bakker, Stanislaw Lem, Neal Stephenson's, Philip Pullman, Olaf Stapledon, Veronica Roth, J.G. Ballard, Dan Simmons, Andrzej Sapkowski, Kim Stanley Robinson, N. K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, and Steven Erickson If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers:   / sadler   You can also make a direct contribution to help fund my ongoing educational projects, by clicking here: https://www.paypal.me/ReasonIO If you're interested in philosophy tutorial sessions with me click here: https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutori... My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation (Amazon links are associate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases) #Philosophy #Worldbuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Literature #Analysis #Books