Voigt-Kampff : Blade Runner Meaning / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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VOIGT-KAMPFF – DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? - BLADE RUNNER – MEANING OF VOIGT-KAMPFF
James Reich :


An analysis of the origin of the Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test in Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ (1968) illustrated with images from the film adaptation ‘Blade Runner’ (1982). This short summary includes mention of the concept of ‘Germanicity’ in PKD’s fiction – for more on this see the work of Laurence A. Rickels. The text of this video was first published in 2014 by James Reich.

James Reich is the author of the science fiction novel The Song My Enemies Sing, and other works that have earned critical acclaim from Michael Moorcock, Barry N. Malzberg, Laurence Rickels, Andrei Codrescu, and others. His account of the development of British science fiction in the 1960s appears in Bloomsbury Publishing’s Decades series, ‘The 1960s’.

He is the author of five novels of science fiction/psy-fi/literary fiction. Available from your local independent bookseller, or online via Amazon, Barnes & Noble etc.

The Song My Enemies Sing (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2018)
Soft Invasions (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2017)
Mistah Kurtz: A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2016)
Bombshell: A Novel (Soft Skull Press, 2013)
I, Judas: A Novel (Soft Skull Press, 2011)

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*The music used was written and performed by James Reich for Todd Verow’s film ‘Tumbledown’