Eroticism and Androids

On the Dynamic of Eroticism in Relation to Androids in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Blade Runner

Authors

  • David de Kam Utrecht University

Abstract

In more and more contemporary science-fiction films and novels the difficulty experienced in attempting to distinguish human from machine has become the main problem facing humanity, endangering its survival, as the machines turn against their architects. In his article, Androids and Eroticism De Kam attempts such a differentiation between android and human in the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott, through an analysis of the characteristic human ability to experience erotic activity, proposing a new reading of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and supplying post-human generations with a critical distinguishing feature between the animate and the inanimate.

Author Biography

  • David de Kam, Utrecht University

    David de Kam (1986) is currently enrolled in the Research Master Literary Studies: Literature in the Modern Age at the University of Utrecht, from which he earlier obtained his Bachelor's degree in Literary Studies.

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2009): Queer Studies

Section

Masterclass

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How to Cite

de Kam, D. (2026). Eroticism and Androids: On the Dynamic of Eroticism in Relation to Androids in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Blade Runner. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 22(2), 60-71. https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27477