Postmodern and Contemporary Literature: Philip K. Dick's

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
 

Philip K. Dick’s, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, written in 1968 is a piece of postmodernist fiction with distinct characteristics that can relate to the science fiction genre. This novel pursues equivocal interpretations to contemporary social, political and cultural issues; such as the reshaping of youth culture, the revolutionary Civil Rights movement, the emergence of both the Vietnam and Cold Wars. However, paramount to this is the ideological rivalry between the United States of America and the Soviet Union and their Space Race. This blogs focus will be to critically discuss three indispensable analytic theorists and theories applicable to P.K. Dick’s piece of post modern literature.  A close critical analysis to specific sections of ‘Do Androids Dream ...’ text, whilst applying these previously discussed theories will to help draw conclusions and witness the disparity and similarities between their  theories and their approach. The key theories I have here to consider are Adorno’s The Culture Industry (1944), Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations (1983) and Survin’s theory of Cognition and Estrangement (1979).