The world according to Philip K. Dick /
As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors. With contributions by major voices in liter...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Third Reality: On the Persistence of Philip K. Dick; Alexander Dunst
- PART I: HISTORY
- 1. Diagnosing Dick; Roger Luckhurst
- 2. 'The Shock of Dysrecognition': Biopolitical Subjects and Drugs in Dick's Science Fiction; Chris Rudge
- 3. Cold-Pac Politics: Ubik's Cold War Imaginary; Fabienne Collignon:
- PART II: THEORY
- 4. Between Scanner and Object: Drugs and Ontology in A Scanner Darkly; Marcus Boon
- 5. From Here to California: Philip K. Dick, The Simulacra, and Post-War Integrations of Germany; Laurence Rickels
- 6. Remember Tomorrow: Biopolitics of Time in the Early Works of Philip K. Dick; Yari Lanci:
- PART III: ADAPTATION
- 7. Dick without the Dick: Adaptation Studies and Slipstream Cinema; Mark Bould
- 8. Mr. Tagomi's Planet: Philip K. Dick and Japanese Speculative Fiction; Takayuki Tatsumi
- 9. On Three Comics Adaptations of Philip K. Dick; Stefan Schlensag
- PART IV: EXEGESIS
- 10. The Hymn of Philip K. Dick: Reading, Writing, and Gnosis in the 'Exegesis'; Erik Davis
- 11. Stairway to Eleusis, or: Perennially Philip K. Dick; Richard Doyle
- 12. From Exegesis to Ecology; James Burton
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.