Conceptual Mapping and AI-Driven Literary Criticism: An RDF-Based Study of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

This study attempts a critical analysis of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by integrating digital methodologies with literary theoretical inquiry. By applying RDF modeling alongside DistilBERT and Sentence-BERT embeddings, this research seeks to illuminate the deep semantic network between characters, philosophical discourses, and narrative elements. RDF visualization and SPARQL queries serve as valuable tools for examining how Dick’s narrative engages with questions of existence, authenticity, and technological representation. The RDF framework constructed in this study enables a structured analysis of how posthumanist concepts, such as cyborg theory, animal ethics, and the human-machine boundary, are interconnected within the novel’s characters and narrative structures. While acknowledging the semantic complexity and scalability challenges of such an approach, this study explores the potential of digital criticism to expand literary methodologies by bridging AI-driven textual analysis with traditional literary critique.