Not Blade Runner
Jan 26, 2025
An interesting exploration of what it means to be human, or rather, what it means not to be an android.
Humanizing what isn't human is just as fundamentally human as is dehumanizing what is human. It's possible to feel empathy for an electric toad and, at the same time, see an intellectually deficient man as less than human.
How much of his own humanity does one have to sacrifice in order to destroy a soulless simulation of what a human is supposed to be? Is the irreconcilability of what is right and what feels right, as Mercer put it, a basic reality of the human condition?
It's a short book, but densely packed with ideas, surprisingly different than the movie it inspired. I would definitely recommend it.
Fun read. Psychedelic and ridiculous in the endearing style of PKD.
In this book Duchamp admits that he only spent about 2 hours a day (max) working on his Large Glass. He complains that artists are simply too produ...
My way of approaching literature is essentially and at its heart quietist. I don't read for entertainment, generally, even if I am entertained.
