Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now

ISBN-13: 9781476677897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

David Sandner; Donald E. Palumbo; C. W. Sullivan III

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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction to Philip K. Dick Now That He Is Philip K. Dick
David Sandner 1
Future Ecologies
Philip K. Dick's Futuristic Ecologies
Ursula Heise 14
From Soft Totalitarianism to TV Introjection: Philip Kindred
Dick and the Tube
Umberto Rossi 32
Voices, Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind: A Scanner Darkly on the Road to Julian Jaynes' Psychology
Richard Feist 46
Ubik Does Not Yet Exist: Reading Ubik as a Case of Extro–
Science Fiction
Sean Matharoo 61
Rereading Dick's Mainstream Fiction within a Science Fiction
Framework
Gabriel Cutrufello 71
Evolving Dickian Criticism: The Exegesis and Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin
Michael ­Kvamme-O'Brien 83
Philip Dick, the Earthshaker
Gregg Rickman 99
Galactic ­Pot-Healer: A Singular Way Station
Gary Westfahl 107
Archaeologies
The Philip K. Dick Society: A Preliminary Archaeology
Jonathan Lethem 116
PKD at California State University, Fullerton: A ­Question-and-Answer Session with Nicole Vandever and Paige Patterson
Tim Powers and James Blaylock 137
PKD Goes to the Movies: A Panel Discussion
Daniel Gilbertson, Gary Westfahl and Paul Sammon 153
Dick's SoCal Dream
Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with Samuel Sousa 171
Appendix: Images and Ephemera from the 2016 Philip K. Dick
Conference 187
About the Contributors 213
Index 215