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Evaluation of the Shreveport Predictive Policing Experiment
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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. -
The Defenders Dick, Philip K
The Defenders Dick, Philip K. Published: 1953 Categorie(s): Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories Source: http://www.gutenberg.org 1 About Dick: Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Dick explored sociological, political and meta- physical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corpora- tions, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his per- sonal interest in mysticism and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug use, paranoia and schizophrenia, and mystical experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS. The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, earning Dick a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, a novel about a celebrity who awakens in a parallel universe where he is unknown, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel in 1975. "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fic- tional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actu- ally have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real." In addition to thirty-six novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, many of which appeared in science fiction magazines. -
Extreme Surveillance and Preventive Justice
EXTREME SURVEILLANCE AND PREVENTIVE JUSTICE: NARRATION AND SPECTACULARITY IN MINORITY REPORT Noemí Novell [email protected] SUMMARY hrough a compared analysis between the narrative of Philip K. Dick and the filmic imagery of Steven Spielberg, the present article explores the forms in which dominant ideas around surveillance and preventive justice are portrayed in Minority Report. The author examines the links between literary fiction and audiovisual representation, focusing on the notions of narrative and spectacularity in order to establish up to what point does the film adaptation interpret de innovative and challenging ideas that identify Dick's visionary science fiction writing. KEY WORDS Science Fiction, Crime, Extreme surveillance, Preventive justice, Civil rights, National security, Privacy, State control, Dystopia, Panopticon, Film adaptation, Philip K. Dick, Steven Spielberg, Minority Report ARTICLE Based on “The Minority Report” (1956), by Philip K. Dick, Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002) is, without a doubt, one of the film scripts that most highlights the ideas of surveillance of citizens and preventive justice.1 Although it is undeniable that both ideas are taken from the original story by Dick, in the film they are highlighted and modified, to some extent thanks to the audiovisual narration that sustains and supports them. This is a relevant point since sometimes opinion has tended towards the idea that cinematographic, unlike literary, science fiction, strips this genre of the innovative and non-conformist ideas that characterise it, and that it lingers too long on the special effects, which, from this perspective, would slow down the narration and would add nothing to it.2 This, this article seeks to explore the ways in which the dominant ideas of surveillance and preventive justice are shown in Minority Report and how their audiovisual representation, far from hindering, contribute to better illustrating the dominant ideas of the film. -
Response to the Minority Report
Response to the Minority Report July 2020 Prepared by the Institute for Social Research In June 2020, a report by the New Mexico 2nd and 5th District Attorneys – Minority Report: Ad Hoc Committee to Review Pretrial Release and Detention Procedures – outlined concerns regarding preventive detention and pretrial release decision making. In general, the data used in the Minority Report to justify the declarations regarding the criminal justice system in New Mexico typically came from an SJDC report on cases with PTS rather than all cases in SJDC or all cases in Bernalillo County. The rates for cases with PTS are not equivalent to the rates for all cases, resulting in interpretations that overestimate FTAs and NCAs and, as a result, underestimate the effectiveness of the PSA and pre-trial release decision making in Bernalillo County courts. This document provides a preliminary response to the report. The Minority Report is divided into a series of six sections: I. Who is being released? II. New Mexico’s bail reform was a half measure that failed to incorporate two of the three bases for detention recognized in other jurisdictions. III. New Mexico is not yet safer with bail reform and is not as safe as other bail reform jurisdictions. IV. Defendants charged with violent crime pose a greater risk of violence. V. New Mexico releases more dangerous offenders than other jurisdictions. VI. Rebuttable presumptions are used across the country to help identify violent and otherwise risky offenders. Section I: Who is being released? The Minority Report is correct in the assertion that Second Judicial District Court (SJDC) have denied over 1,600 motions seeking preventive detention (PTD) from January 1, 2017 to February 29, 2020. -
Minority Report: John Marshall and the Defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts
OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL VOLUME 68, NUMBER 2, 2007 Minority Report: John Marshall and the Defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts KURT T. LASH* ALICIA HARRSON** In 1799, the Federalist minority of the Virginia House of Delegates produced an extended defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts. This Minority Report responded to Madison's famous Virginia Resolutions and efforts by Virginia Republicans to tar the Adams Administration with having exceeded its powers under the federal Constitution. Originally attributed to John Marshall by biographerAlbert Beveridge, recent biographies of Marshall have omitted the episode or rejected Beveridge's claim and the current editors of the Papers of John Marshall omitted the Minority Report from their multi-volume collection of Marshall's work. What was once an assumed (if controversial) episode in Marshall's career has disappeared from otherwise exhaustive accounts of his life and work. As in Philip K. Dick's story, Minority Report, an alternate view of events has been unceremoniously erasedfrom the official record. The authors of this Article challenge the decision to remove Marshall's name from the Minority Report. Marshall was the only person named at the time as the probable author, and Marshallhad both reason and opportunity to draft the Address. The arguments of the Report not only track Marshall's views on the Constitution, they utilize constitutional arguments that were * Professor of Law and W. Joseph Ford Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. B.A., Whitman College; J.D., Yale Law School. I thank the wonderful staff at the Huntington Research Library for their invaluable assistance locating innumerable primary documents. -
Minority Report and the Law of Attempt
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by KnowledgeBank at OSU Minority Report and the Law of Attempt Robert Batey* Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report,1 released in summer 2002, derives from a Philip K. Dick short story first published in 1956.2 The futuristic premise of both the film and short story, that the government can predict crime before it happens and so prevent it, broaches intriguing questions regarding criminal justice. In dealing with one of those questions, the movie ringingly endorses one of the hoariest and most questionable tenets of Anglo-American criminal law: the notion that a person can come quite close to committing a crime and yet may escape all criminal liability, even for the crime of attempt, if the target offense goes uncommitted. The fact that this idea holds centerstage in what was intended as popular entertainment says much about its persistence, despite decades of academic skepticism and legislative and judicial revision. This Review first compares the short story and film, highlighting the differences effected by the screenwriters Scott Frank and John Cohen, which in turn spotlight issues regarding the act requirement for attempt. The movie implicitly supports the common-law approach to attempt liability, which makes it quite difficult to establish that a defendant has done acts sufficient to constitute an attempt, in contrast to the less stringent rule of the Model Penal Code (“MPC”)—perhaps reflecting a visceral public approval of the common law’s attitude, and in turn explaining why the MPC’s recommendation on this point has not been very widely followed. -
Nanotech Ideas in Science-Fiction-Literature
Nanotech Ideas in Science-Fiction-Literature Nanotech Ideas in Science-Fiction-Literature Text: Thomas Le Blanc Research: Svenja Partheil and Verena Knorpp Translation: Klaudia Seibel Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar Special thanks to the authors Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf and Friedhelm Schneidewind for the kind permission to publish and translate their two short stories Imprint Nanotech Ideas in Science-Fiction-Literature German original: Vol. 24 of the Hessen-Nanotech series by the Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development, State of Hessen Compiled and written by Thomas Le Blanc Svenja Partheil, Verena Knorpp (research) Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar Turmstrasse 20 35578 Wetzlar, Germany Edited by Sebastian Hummel, Ulrike Niedner-Kalthoff (Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development, State of Hessen) Dr. David Eckensberger, Nicole Holderbaum (Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH, Hessen-Nanotech) Editor For NANORA, the Nano Regions Alliance: Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development, State of Hessen Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 75 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany Phone: +49 (0) 611 815 2471 Fax: +49 (0) 611 815 49 2471 www.wirtschaft.hessen.de The editor is not responsible for the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of this information nor for observing the individual rights of third parties. The views and opinions rendered herein do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editor. © Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development, State of Hessen Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 75 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany wirtschaft.hessen.de All rights reserved. No part of this brochure may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. -
Psychological Terror and Social Fears in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction
Belphégor Giuliano Bettanin Psychological Terror and Social Fears in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction As it developed during the twentieth century, the genre of science fiction has often used themes belonging to horror literature. In point of fact, these two genres have a good deal in common. Most obviously, science fiction and horror share a fantastic background and a detachment from the probabilities of realistic fiction. Also, the birth of science fiction is closely connected to the development of the gothic novel. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is commonly considered proto-science fiction, also represents a nineteenth-century development of the gothic novel. In addition, Herbert George Wells, whose work lies at the basis of modern science fiction, wrote at least one gothic novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau.1 The fusion of horror and science fiction has often generated figures of terrifying and evil aliens, robots that rebel against their human creators, and apocalyptic, post-thermonuclear-global-war scenarios. In this brief essay I shall analyze the ways in which Philip K. Dick incorporated horror themes into his oeuvre and the highly original results he obtained by mingling the two genres. For this purpose I shall discuss several of his short stories and his early novel Eye in the Sky. Besides the already mentioned motifs of the alien, the rebel robot and the atomic holocaust, Dick develops a mystical-religious motif as he explores a number of metaphysical problems that are strictly connected to his most characteristic interest in epistemological questions. From the moment of the publication of his first short stories and novels in the 1950s, Dick became one of the most representative authors of American social science fiction. -
And Philip K. Dick Wept
And Philip K. Dick Wept Steve Mizrach Many people have seen Philip K. Dick as a unique figure in science fiction. I would argue that some of the themes in his writing anticipated the particular science fiction movement that so many people now call "cyberpunk". Not surprisingly, he is often not included in the canons of this genre, but if his writing were closely examined, there are many reasons why he should have been. Clearly, Dick frequently dealt with the theme "what is human ?" by introducing characters that dealt with precisely that dilemma - the replicants of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - by beginning to question the difference between man and machine. If in the cyberpunk novel humans are beginning to cross the man/machine boundary by replacing more and more of their "meat" with cybernetic implants, then often Dick's characters - like Commander Data on Star Trek - are frequently seeking to become more human. Philip K. Dick eventually answered this question (it was more easy for him than "what is real ?") by suggesting that the hallmark of humanity was kindness. Palmer Eldritch did not lose his humanity by his artificial implants ("stigmata") or even by becoming consumed by an intelligent Fungus from the Prox system. Instead, Philip K. Dick hints his humanity was lost when his compassion finally was also, which is why Leo Bulero triumphs over him. Philip K. Dick never denied the possibility that machines might know kindness, and Deckard himself comes to this conclusion in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. All kinds of beings and races inhabit Philip K. -
1 Chapter Five This Is Not Minority Report R. Joshua Scannell
Chapter Five This is Not Minority Report R. Joshua Scannell “I’m tired. I’m tired of the future.” —Agatha, from Minority Report (2002) In November 2015, writer and antiracist activist Shaun King penned a widely circulated op-ed in the New York Daily News titled “Predictive Policing is ‘technological racism.’” In it, King raises a version of what data scientists call the “garbage in, garbage out” problem. In so many words: Any automated system will only ever be as good as the data it is based on. The racist history of American policing means that any predictive system’s data is garbage. Therefore, predictive policing programs will be racist garbage (King 2015). This is true, but the framing raises an inevitable counterpoint. If it were possible to account for that history and code it out – in effect to unskew the data – wouldn’t predictive policing be an improvement over the status quo? Isn’t relying on the insights afforded by an impartial equation interpreting hard math preferable to the possible prejudices of a “bad apple” beat cop? This is the problematic that, in the last decade, has dominated debates around predictive policing technologies. Skeptics point to the fact that a predictive policing system based on past police practice will reproduce the racial, sexual and classed structures that organize state violence (Selbst 2017). This is as obvious to developers as it is to their critics, and they have 1 increasingly cast their surveillance net across an ever-widening spectrum of daily practices and affects in order to code their way out of “bias” (Ferguson 2017).