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by Andy Miah, PhD

Thursday, July 01, 2004

Cyborg Bodies and Digitized Desire

Jennifer Attaway's analysis of posthumanism in Philip K Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' brings into question the concept of human identity. The article is specifically about AI and spends a lot of time reviewing Dick's story, but does get into ideas about free will and desire. Attway claims that 'the technologically and ideologically mediated experiences of humans have diluted their desire to a point that there is no such thing as indivdual expression of desire'