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The postmodern humanism of Philip K. Dick
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ISBN: 1282521047 9786612521041 0810866978 9780810866973 9780810862128 0810862123 9781282521049 661252104X Year: 2009 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Scarecrow Press

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In The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick, Jason Vest examines how Dick adapted the conventions of science fiction and postmodernism to reflect humanist concerns about the difficulties of maintaining identity, agency, and autonomy in the latter half of the 20th century. Vest also explores Dick's literary relationship to Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino.


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The man in the high castle and philosophy: subversive reports from another reality
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ISBN: 0812699688 9780812699685 0812699637 9780812699630 Year: 2017 Publisher: Open Court

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The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an "alternate present" (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern U.S. occupied by Nazi Germany, and a small "neutral zone" between them. A theme of the story is that in this alternative world there is eager speculation, fueled by the illicit newsreel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy , about how the world would have been different if America had won the war. In The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy , twenty-two professional thinkers look at philosophical issues raised by this ongoing enterprise in "alternative history." One question is whether it really made a profound difference that the Allies won the war, and exactly what differences in everyday life we may expect to arise from an apparent historical turning point. Could it be that some dramatic historical events have only superficial consequences, while some unnoticed occurrences lead to catastrophic results? Another topic is the quest for truth in a world of government misinformation, and how dissenting organizations can make headway.

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The Funambulist pamphlets.
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Science Fiction, Literature, and Cinema.


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The divine madness of Philip K. Dick
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ISBN: 9780199743254 0199743258 0190498307 0190498315 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Widely recognized as one of the most imaginative writers of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick helped to shape science fiction into the popular genre it is today. His stories, renowned for their sophisticated philosophical themes and startling portrayals of simulated realities, inspired numerous television and film adaptations, including the 1982 cult classic Blade Runner. Dick's personal life took on an otherwordly quality when, in 1974, he famously had a series of bizarre visions. According to Dick, a pink light beamed psychic information into his brain, awakening memories of a past life as an ancient Christian revolutionary and granting him contact with time-traveling extraterrestrials. He witnessed scenes from ancient Rome superimposed over his California neighborhood, and warned local police he was a dangerous machine programmed to self-destruct. After the visions faded, Philip K. Dick spent the rest of his life trying to fathom the meaning of what he called his "divine madness." Was it schizophrenia? Or a genuine religious experience? In The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick, clinical psychologist Kyle Arnold probes the fascinating mystery of Dick's heart and mind, and shows readers how early traumas opened Dick to profound spiritual experiences while also predisposing him toward drug dependency and violence. Disputing the myth that Dick had schizophrenia, Arnold contends that Dick's well-known paranoia was caused by his addiction to speed. Despite Dick's paranoia, his divine madness was not a sign of mental illness, but a powerful spiritual experience conveyed in the images of science fiction.--Amazon.com.

Critical theory and science fiction
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ISBN: 0819574546 9780819574541 0819563986 9780819563989 0819563994 9780819563996 Year: 2000 Publisher: Hanover

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Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory.

Contemporary American science fiction: the formative period, 1926-1970
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ISBN: 058532591X 9780585325910 0872498700 9780872496897 Year: 1992 Publisher: Columbia, S.C. University of South Carolina Press


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Anthologieserie. : Systematik und Geschichte eines narrativen Formats.
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ISBN: 3741001430 3741003778 Year: 2022 Publisher: Marburg : Schüren Verlag,

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Long description: Black Mirror, Fargo, True Detective und American Horror Story gehören zu den meistdiskutierten Serienproduktionen der letzten zehn Jahre. So unterschiedlich die Serien sind: Sie eint eine Gattungsbezeichnung, die sich als Selbstbeschreibung im Marketing der Produktionen sowie in den Besprechungen der Kommentatorinnen und Kommentatoren etabliert hat: Anthologieserie. Die Beiträge des Sammelbands setzen es sich zum Ziel, dem Anthologischen im Seriellen systematisch nachzugehen, um den Begriff im geisteswissenschaftlichen Diskurs zu profilieren. Dabei fragen die Beiträge nach den medialen Bedingungen, wie etwa den Zusammenhängen und Unterschieden von Sammlung und Reihe, von literarischen und fernsehseriellen Anthologien, sowie nach der Herkunft und den Funktionen des Begriffs. Gleichermaßen werden spezifische Erzähllogiken der Fortsetzung und Schließung sowie den daraus entstehenden Kohärenzmomenten von Anthologieserien in den Blick genommen. Damit wird gezeigt, dass der Begriff mehr ist als ein geschicktes Branding von Seiten der Produktionsstudios. Er stellt vielmehr eine operationalisierbare und analytisch belastbare Kategorie dar, die in die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Anthologieserien einfließen sollte.

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