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Politics and Metaphysics in Three Novels of Philip K. Dick
EUGÊNIA BARTHELMESS Politics and Metaphysics in Three Novels of Philip K. Dick Dissertação apresentada ao Curso de Pós- Graduação em Letras, Área de Concentra- ção Literaturas de Língua Inglesa, do Setor de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes da Universidade Federai do Paraná, como requisito parcial à obtenção do grau de Mestre. Orientadora: Prof.3 Dr.a BRUNILDA REICHMAN LEMOS CURITIBA 19 8 7 OF PHILIP K. DICK ERRATA FOR READ p -;2011 '6:€h|j'column iinesllll^^is'iiearly jfifties (e'jarly i fx|fties') fifties); Jl ' 1 p,.2Ò 6th' column line 16 space race space race (late fifties) p . 33 line 13 1889 1899 i -,;r „ i i ii 31 p .38 line 4 reel."31 reel • p.41 line 21 ninteenth nineteenth p .6 4 line 6 acien ce science p .6 9 line 6 tear tears p. 70 line 21 ' miliion million p .72 line 5 innocence experience p.93 line 24 ROBINSON Robinson p. 9 3 line 26 Robinson ROBINSON! :; 1 i ;.!'M l1 ! ! t i " i î : '1 I fi ' ! • 1 p .9 3 line 27 as deliberate as a deliberate jf ! •! : ji ' i' ! p .96 lin;e , 5! . 1 from form ! ! 1' ' p. 96 line 8 male dis tory maledictory I p .115 line 27 cookedly crookedly / f1 • ' ' p.151 line 32 why this is ' why is this I 1; - . p.151 line 33 Because it'll Because (....) it'll p.189 line 15 mourmtain mountain 1 | p .225 line 13 crete create p.232 line 27 Massachusetts, 1960. Massachusetts, M. I. T. -
Panel About Philip K. Dick
Science Fiction Book Club Interview with Andrew M. Butler and David Hyde July 2018 Andrew M. Butler is a British academic who teaches film, media and cultural studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. His thesis paper for his PhD was titled “Ontology and ethics in the writings of Philip K. Dick.” He has also published “The Pocket essential Philip K. Dick”. He is a former editor of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association and was membership secretary of the Science Fiction Foundation. He is a former Arthur C. Clarke Award judge and is now a member of the Serendip Foundation which administers the award. David Hyde, a.k.a. Lord Running Clam, joined the Philip K. Dick Society in 1985 and contributed to its newsletter. When the PKDS was discontinued, he created For Dickheads Only in 1993, a zine that was active until 1997. Since then, his activities include many contributions to and editorial work for the fanzine PKD OTAKU. His book, PINK BEAM: A Philip K. Dick Companion, is a detailed publication history of PKD's novels and short stories. In 2010, David organized the 21st century's first Philip K. Dick Festival in Black Hawk, Colorado. Recently, in partnership with Henri Wintz at Wide Books, he has published two full-color bibliographies of the novels and short stories of Philip K. Dick. In early 2019 Wide Books will publish the French bibliography. On the 35th anniversary of Phil’s passing in 2017 David held a memorial celebration for PKD fans in Ft. Morgan, Colorado, the final resting place of Phil and his twin sister Jane. -
Indice: 0. Philip K. Dick. Biografía. La Esquizofrenia De Dick. Antonio Rodríguez Babiloni 1
Indice: 0. Philip K. Dick. Biografía. La esquizofrenia de Dick. Antonio Rodríguez Babiloni 1. El cuento final de todos los cuentos. Philip K. Dick. 2. El impostor. Philip K. Dick. 3. 20 años sin Phil. Ivan de la Torre. 4. La mente alien. Philip K. Dick. 5. Philip K. Dick: ¿Aún sueñan los hombres con ovejas de carne y hueso? Jorge Oscar Rossi. 6. Podemos recordarlo todo por usted. Philip K. Dick. 7. Philip K. Dick en el cine 8. Bibliografía general de Philip K. Dick PHILIP K. DICK. BIOGRAFÍA. LA ESQUIZOFRENIA DE DICK. Antonio Rodríguez Babiloni Biografía: Philip. K. Dick (1928-1982) Nació prematuramente, junto a su hermana gemela Jane, el 2 de marzo 1928, en Chicago. Jane murió trágicamente pocas semanas después. La influencia de la muerte de Jane fue una parte dominante de la vida y obra de Philp K. Dick. El biógrafo Lawrence Sutin escribe; ...El trauma de la muerte de Jane quedó como el suceso central de la vida psíquica de Phil Dos años más tarde los padres de Dick, Dorothy Grant y Joseph Edgar Dick se mudaron a Berkeley. A esas alturas el matrimonio estaba prácticamente roto y el divorcio llegó en 1932, Dick se quedó con su madre, con la que se trasladó a Washington. En 1940 volvieron a Berkeley. Fue durante este período cuando Dick comenzó a leer y escribir ciencia ficción. En su adolescencia, publicó regularmente historias cortas en el Club de Autores Jovenes, una columna el Berkeley Gazette. Devoraba todas las revistas de ciencia-ficción que llegaban a sus manos y muy pronto empezó a ser influido por autores como Heinlein y Van Vogt. -
Senate Should Be Based on Proportional I Hereby Appoint the Honorable SCOTT H
E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 116 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 165 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 No. 149 House of Representatives The House met at noon and was to write and ratify a document to unite is demonstrably a miracle is the man- called to order by the Speaker pro tem- them all. ner in which it came about. pore (Mr. PETERS). Our Constitution truly is a miracle. ‘‘During the course of the Conven- tion, every delegate had to give up on f Aside from its genius, its history helps us appreciate the blessing it is. Our some cherished principle. DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO colleague, Congressman CHRIS STEW- ‘‘James Madison, who had come to TEMPORE ART, and Judge Ted Stewart wrote a the Convention more prepared than The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- wonderful book, ‘‘Seven Miracles That anyone and was primarily responsible fore the House the following commu- Saved America.’’ In it, they offer three for the general outline of the govern- nication from the Speaker: reasons to believe God had a hand in ment established by the Constitution, the crafting of the Constitution. lost on many issues. Most dear to him WASHINGTON, DC, was his belief that the House and the September 17, 2019. For the remainder of my time today Senate should be based on proportional I hereby appoint the Honorable SCOTT H. on Constitution Day, I would like to PETERS to act as Speaker pro tempore on quote them. representation. -
Scanners Darkly: Drugs, Media and Schizophrenia in Philip K. Dick's
Scanners Darkly: Drugs, Media and Schizophrenia in Philip K. Dick’s Oeuvre Philip K. Dick’s stories provide a thorough description of how technological instruments and media equipment stimulate and manipulate dreams, memories, and emotions of the human brain. As Anthony Enns outlines, the texts portray a wide range of mechanical and media equipment, creating diverse forms of the “posthuman.” The robot-protagonist in “The Electric Ant” (1969) and the “simulacra” in We Can Build You (1972) are controlled by punched tape memory constructions. The schizoid and autistic characters and their supposedly successful treatment evoke filmic metaphors in Martian Time-Slip (1964). A Scanner Darkly (1977) also utilizes filmic imagery – the psychedelic coma is described as “an endless horror feature film in his head for the remainder of his life” (86) – but the mentally disturbed mind imitates a “closed loop of tape” (66) , becoming similar to a faulty computer that is unable to process new data, “[r]epeating his last instruction” (265). In Valis (1981) and Radio Free Albemuth (1985), the protagonist’s mind joins an “intergalactic communications network,” a “long-abandoned telephone” service (113). My essay analyzes these mechanical images by utilizing media theories of Friedrich A. Kittler, Marshall McLuhan and Christian Metz, thinkers who find the (Lacanian) subject and the stages of media history strictly interrelated. N. Katherine Hayles’ interpretation of the Dickian “schizoid android” suggests that the images of cyborgs and those of mental disorder are intertwined. I deploy, therefore, psychological theories of autism, schizophrenia and brain mapping, drawing on psychologists whom Dick was (possibly) familiar with (Wilder Penfield, James Olds, Eugene Minkowski, Leo Kanner, and so on). -
Media, Drugs, and Schizophrenia in the Works of Philip K. Dick Author(S): Anthony Enns Source: Science Fiction Studies, Vol
SF-TH Inc Media, Drugs, and Schizophrenia in the Works of Philip K. Dick Author(s): Anthony Enns Source: Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, Technoculture and Science Fiction (Mar., 2006), pp. 68-88 Published by: SF-TH Inc Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241409 Accessed: 12/12/2010 18:23 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=sfth. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. SF-TH Inc is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Science Fiction Studies. http://www.jstor.org 68 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 33 (2006) Anthony Enns Media, Drugs, and Schizophrenia in the Works of Philip K. -
Dick Selon Spielberg
CRITIQUES m JEAN-PIERRE DUFREIGNE . Dick selon Spielberg eraclite d'Éphèse, dit l'Obscur au motif qu'on ne connaît de sa pensée que des fragments qui malmènent délicieusement notre sens des réalités supposées, H affirme que la « nature des choses à coutume de se I dissimuler ». Autant dire que le faux-semblant est notre ! vérité. Mais aussi, que c'est dans des œuvres humaines ! jugées mineures que la vérité se niche et se protège | quand il s'agit d'art et de doute sur cet art. L'esprit ! humain aimant les classements, en chimie comme à l'école, il n'épargna pas les genres. La littérature et le ! cinéma son frère cadet liés par leur goût pour l'explo ration de la durée passèrent à cette moulinette : polars, • SF et fantastique furent des sous-genres, même si trois | pages au style en silex de Raymond Chandler, de i Philip K. Dick, l'hérétique spéculatif, ou de Stephen ; King, nous en apprennent sur le monde des années trente, cinquante, quatre-vingt, et sur ses répercussions | dans nos univers mentaux bien plus que bien des i romans de main stream (littérature « normale ») de ces | mêmes années. • Il en est de même pour le cinéma où le « film de genre » ; reprend ses droits même en France, terrain d'exception, ! champignonnière rêvée d'années de nombrilisme. Le ; Pacte des loups fut l'un des cinq succès à plus de 5 mil- [ lions d'entrées de 2001. On remarquera aussi que des I trois auteurs de genre cités plus haut, Chandler, Dick, King I (aux vertus littéraires inégales), des cinéastes tirèrent des œuvres de première grandeur : le Grand Sommeil, de \ Howard Hawks ; Blade Runner, de Ridley Scott ; Shining, ; de Stanley Kubrick. -
As Panagiris
Reading The Law Made Strange: A Theological Jurisprudence of Popular Culture Author Peters, Timothy Douglas Panagiris Published 2014 Thesis Type Thesis (PhD Doctorate) School Griffith Law School DOI https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/3090 Copyright Statement The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367131 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au Reading The Law Made Strange A Theological Jurisprudence of Popular Culture by Timothy Douglas Panagiris Peters Bachelor of Commerce (Griffith University) / Bachelor of Laws (Hon 1) (Griffith University) Griffith Law School Arts, Education & Law Group Griffith University Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy March 2014 Abstract This thesis elaborates and performs a form of cultural legal studies that examines the overlap between legal theory, theology and popular culture. In doing so it makes use of, and mobilises, the concept of estrangement or ‘making’ strange put forward by Victor Shklovsky and the Russian Formalists (amongst others). It does this at two levels: first, by examining the genres of speculative fiction as genres of estrangement that ‘make strange’ their representations of law, legality and justice; and second, by proposing a mode and methodology of cultural legal reading as one that itself ‘makes strange’, rendering the texts under analysis otherwise. As such, it sees in the stories told within the genres of speculative fiction not simply flights of fancy or postulates of pure imagination with no relation or reference to reality. Rather, they produce a meditation on and mediation of the world itself—one that opens us to see the world both in its createdness and contingency, as storied and imbued with meaning. -
{Download PDF} Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
SELECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Philip K Dick,Jonathan Lethem | 466 pages | 16 Apr 2013 | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | 9780544040540 | English | Boston, United States Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick PDF Book It quickly becomes clear that Terra lost the war, the woman is from Prox, and that everything he has been seeing is an illusion. Nolfi seem attracted to Philip K. Even "The Adjustment Team" which gave us "The Adjustment Bureau" and "We'll Remember it for You Wholesale" which gave us "Total Recall" are only slightly interesting concept-wise and utterly ridiculous writing, character and dialog-wise. He rarely writes a character who has a real, genuine drive or personality. Other Editions Dick, Philip K. The war continues, however, among the scattered remains of humanity. Surprisingly, the short story version does not feature any drug use, altered consciousness, or meeting an alien being that may be a lonely god, but instead focuses on the idea of people escaping into fantasy role-playing in the aftermath of a devastating war. So many of the stories involve paranoia, warping of reality, or a complete disbelief in reality. About Philip K. A hot noonday sun glared down on brown fields, rows of neat plastic houses, the distant line of mountains to the west. Highly recommended! Start your review of Selected Stories of Philip K. A fabulous collection. It comes, leaves off its load and goes on -- there's no contact between us and it. Instead of taking communion, you get eaten. It's also very, very weird. Adjustment Team. -
SF COMMENTARY 83 GGUUYY SSAALLVVIIDDGGEE Oonn TTHHEE NNOOVVEELLSS OOFF PPHHIILLIIPP KK
SF COMMENTARY 83 GGUUYY SSAALLVVIIDDGGEE oonn TTHHEE NNOOVVEELLSS OOFF PPHHIILLIIPP KK.. DDIICCKK October 2012 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Brian ALDISS John BAXTER Greg BENFORD Helena BINNS Damien BRODERICK Ned BROOKS Ian COVELL Bruce GILLESPIE Fenna HOGG John-Henri HOLMBERG Carol KEWLEY Robert LICHTMAN Patrick MCGUIRE Murray MACLACHLAN Tim MARION Eric MAYER Cath ORTLIEB Rog PEYTON Mark PLUMMER Franz ROTTENSTEINER Yvonne ROUSSEAU David RUSSELL Darrell SCHWEITZER Steve SNEYD Ian WATSON TARAL WAYNE Frank WEISSENBORN Ray WOOD Martin Morse WOOSTER Cover: Fenna Hogg SF COMMENTARY 83 October 2012 80 pages SF COMMENTARY No. 83, October 2012, is edited and published in a limited number of print copies by Bruce Gillespie, 5 Howard Street, Greensborough, VIC 3068, Australia. Phone: 61-3-9435 7786. Preferred means of distribution .PDF file from eFanzines.com at http://efanzines.com/SFC/SFC83.PDF or from my email address: [email protected]. Printed by Copy Place, Basement, 105 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. Front cover Melbourne graphic artist Fenna Hogg’s cover does not in fact portray Philip K. Dick wearing a scramble suit. That’s what it looks like to me. It is actually based on a photograph of Melbourne writer and teacher Steve Cameron, who arranged with Fenna for its use as a cover. Graphic Carol Kewley (p. 78). Photographs Damien Broderick (p. 4); Guy Salvidge (p. 7); Jim Sakland/Dick Eney (p. 50); Jerry Bauer (p. 51); Helena Binns (pp. 59, 80); Mark Atkins/John Baxter (p. 70); Yvonne Rousseau (pp. 57, 73); Ray Wood (p. 76); Frank Weissenborn (p. 79); Cath Ortlieb (p. -
Dwin Abbott Abbott Penned This 1884 Novel Narrated by a Square in the Titular Two- Dimensional World
Delaware Winter Invitational, 2010 Science Fiction Trash Packet By Mark Pellegrini Tossups 1) In a 1941 preface to The War in the Air, a 1907 work which foresaw the use of airplanes in combat, this author said that he wanted his epitaph to be “I told you so. You damned fools.” He also foresaw the tank, which he described in 1903’s The Land Ironclads, the atomic bomb, described in 1914’s The World Set Free, and the Second World War, described in 1934’s The Shape of Things to Come. But he’s best known for an 1895 novel in which an unnamed protagonist travels into the future, where he meets the Eloi ["Ee-loy"] and Morlocks. This is, for ten points, what author of The Time Machine? ANSWER: H.G. Wells 2) This character killed the last Sorcerer of Tund, Rokur Gepta. His company Tendrando Arms created the YVH 1 robots during the Yuuzhon Vong. Earlier in that conflict he had administered Dubrillion and Destrillion before their destruction. His victory at Taananb caused him to be promoted to general shortly before the Battle of Endor. In 2 ABY he became the Baron Administrator of a tibanna gas mining colony over Bespin. Name, for ten points, this “card player, gambler, and scoundrel,” the administrator of Cloud City, portrayed in The Empire Strikes Back by Billy Dee Williams. ANSWER: Lando Calrissian (Accept either) 3) This story is told as a first person narrative from the perspective of the titular character, Lionel Verney. Set in England in the 2090s, a plague ravages Europe and the Americas, killing most of the populace. -
Politics, Religion, and Philosophy in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research New York City College of Technology 2005 How Much Does Chaos Scare You?: Politics, Religion, and Philosophy in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick Aaron Barlow CUNY New York City College of Technology How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ny_pubs/25 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] How Much Does Chaos Scare You? Politics, Religion, and Philosophy in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick Aaron Barlow Shakespeare’s Sister, Inc. Brooklyn, NY & lulu.com 2005 © Aaron Barlow, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Foreword n 1989, while I was serving in Peace Corps in West Africa, II received a letter from an American academic publisher asking if I were interested in submitting for publication the doctoral dissertation I had completed the year before at the University of Iowa. “Why would I want to do that?” I asked. One disserta- tion on Philip K. Dick had already appeared as a book (by Kim Stanley Robinson) and Dick, though I loved his work, just wasn’t that well known or respected (not then). Plus, I was liv- ing in a mud hut and teaching people to use oxen for plowing: how would I ever be able to do the work that would be needed to turn my study from dissertation to book? When I defended the dissertation, I had imagined myself finished with studies of Philip K.