logging in or signing up Andys 1 mr.cmwhite Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 97 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: April 07, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? : Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The set-up: Act 1 Dolly the Sheep : Dolly the Sheep Setting Moods : Setting Moods Penfield Mood Organ sets moods Available to all? Why set moods? Parallel to andys--programming. Post-Apocalyptic Future : Post-Apocalyptic Future Common Sci-Fi device; usually after Nukes Recently, after biological warfare, super-plague, etc. Androids, Matrix, & Dune all have this element. Colonization of Mars : Colonization of Mars Another common feature of Sci-Fi. NOT in Matrix. Implied in Dune. Rules of Emigration : Rules of Emigration Move to Mars Get your own personal Android Some colonies recreate the “old south” -- Andys as slaves Must be REGULAR to emigrate Specials : Specials Stick around Earth long enough, the dust’ll turn you into a CHICKENHEAD, and eventually and ANTHEAD! J. R. Isidore Religion = Mercerism : Religion = Mercerism Mercer could bring animals back to life using illegal time-reversal techniques. Persecuted for this and for being a freak. Bombarded with cobalt, plunges him into different world. Tomb world with dead animals. Begins to ascend. Persecuted, stoned. Obvious satire of Jesus. Empathy Box : Empathy Box Empathy is key to Mercerism Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives. People hold handles on empathy box, feel what Mercer felt; feel what each other feels -- sharing of emotion and feeling Animals : Animals Animals connect people with Mercer Connect people with life -- living things Status Deckard’s real sheep died -- tetanus. Desperately wants another real animal. Needs to retire 5 andys J. R. Isidore : J. R. Isidore Special. Has no animal. Lives alone in suburban building Only has empathy box and TV. Drives for Electric Vet. Wants to be NORMAL, or at least treated with some measure of respect. You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Andys 1 mr.cmwhite Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 97 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: April 07, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? : Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The set-up: Act 1 Dolly the Sheep : Dolly the Sheep Setting Moods : Setting Moods Penfield Mood Organ sets moods Available to all? Why set moods? Parallel to andys--programming. Post-Apocalyptic Future : Post-Apocalyptic Future Common Sci-Fi device; usually after Nukes Recently, after biological warfare, super-plague, etc. Androids, Matrix, & Dune all have this element. Colonization of Mars : Colonization of Mars Another common feature of Sci-Fi. NOT in Matrix. Implied in Dune. Rules of Emigration : Rules of Emigration Move to Mars Get your own personal Android Some colonies recreate the “old south” -- Andys as slaves Must be REGULAR to emigrate Specials : Specials Stick around Earth long enough, the dust’ll turn you into a CHICKENHEAD, and eventually and ANTHEAD! J. R. Isidore Religion = Mercerism : Religion = Mercerism Mercer could bring animals back to life using illegal time-reversal techniques. Persecuted for this and for being a freak. Bombarded with cobalt, plunges him into different world. Tomb world with dead animals. Begins to ascend. Persecuted, stoned. Obvious satire of Jesus. Empathy Box : Empathy Box Empathy is key to Mercerism Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives. People hold handles on empathy box, feel what Mercer felt; feel what each other feels -- sharing of emotion and feeling Animals : Animals Animals connect people with Mercer Connect people with life -- living things Status Deckard’s real sheep died -- tetanus. Desperately wants another real animal. Needs to retire 5 andys J. R. Isidore : J. R. Isidore Special. Has no animal. Lives alone in suburban building Only has empathy box and TV. Drives for Electric Vet. Wants to be NORMAL, or at least treated with some measure of respect.