Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? by monochrom
The second in the Arse Elektronika anthology, “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?” considers sex, science-fiction, technology, the Internet & the future. Critical perspectives on sexuality and pornography in science and social fiction from monochrom, the legendary think-tank collective of Vienna, Austria. Edited by Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry, and Thomas Ballhausen.
Featuring essays and stories by Rudy Rucker, Richard Kadrey, James Tiptree, Jr., Allen Stein, Sharing is Sexy, Jason Brown, Cory Doctorow, Annalee Newitz, Tina Lorenz, Reesa Brown, Karin Harrasser, Isaac Leung, Rose White, Mela Mikes, Viviane, Susan Mernit, Chris Noessel, Kit O’Connell, Jens Ohlig, Bonni Rambatan, Thomas Roche, Bonnie Ruberg, Mae Saslaw, Violet Blue, Nathan Shedroff, 23N!, Benjamin Cowden, Johannes Grenzfurthner, D. B. LeConte-Spink, and Daniel Fabry.
8×10″, 262pp, photos, illustrations, contributors’ bios. Limited edition.
Others in the series:
Of Intercourse and Intracourse: Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere
prOnnovation? Sex, Technology & The Internet
Screw the System
The genre of the “fantastic” is especially well suited to the investigation of the touchy area of sexuality and pornography: actual and assumed developments are frequently depicted positively and approvingly, but just as often with dystopian admonishment. Here the classic, and continuingly valid, themes of modernism represent a clear link between the two aspects: questions of science, research and technologization are of interest, as is the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality and control (or the loss of control). Depictions of the future, irregardless of the form they take, always address the present as well. Imaginations of the fantastic and the nightmarish give rise to a thematic overlapping of the exotic, the alienating and, of course, the pornographic/sexual as well.
