DEUS EX MACHINA – Deconstructing Digital Divinity
Text by Oscar Lund In Philip K. Dick’s 1968 sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a new religion has spread across the decaying and abandoned Earth: Mercerism. The fictional religion was first conceptualised in Dick’s short story, The Little Black Box, in which disciples enter a “mystical communion” with their leader, William Mercer, […]