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Link Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, (Part 3) :…
Philip K. Dick’s admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s…

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Link Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher (Part 2) :…
In the very first lines of “Exegesis” Dick writes, “We see the Logos addressing the many living entities.” Logos is an important concept that litters the pages of “Exegesis.” It…

May 22 2012, 3:14am | Comments
Link Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1
The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or…

May 22 2012, 3:05am | Comments
Link Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture
The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet,…

April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments
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April 6 2012, 9:41am | Comments
Link Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” and…
This monster’s talent for mimicry provokes some of the darkest questions. By foregrounding this capability and coupling it with our inability to discern mimics from the remaining men, The Thing…

March 26 2012, 3:37am | Comments
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March 18 2012, 5:25pm | Comments
Tumblr “God,” Eldritch said, “promises eternal life....

March 18 2012, 5:17pm | Comments
Twitter Links Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem
Where Philip K. Dick had come from, for me, was my best friend’s Jake’s dad, Harry. Harry was younger than Jake’s mom, and when…

March 12 2012, 12:50am | Comments
Twitter Links Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference
2012 sees the thirtieth anniversary of the untimely death, at the age of 53, of Philip K. Dick – a figure whose cultural impact…

March 9 2012, 3:48am | Comments
Link The Exegete
When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as…

March 4 2012, 6:22am | Comments
Twitter Links Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE
“I wanted to write books exactly like the ones he didn't live long enough to write.” Lethem on Philip K. Dick

March 4 2012, 2:35am | Comments
Twitter Links The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis
“March 3 and March 4: Philip K. Dick is undoubtedly one of the greatest Gnostic visionaries and literary giants in all of history. Much…

March 3 2012, 1:05pm | Comments
Link Do Androids Dream of Electric Authors?
But the invasion of robot-books is unsettling for another reason. I think we can all agree that it’s O.K. for robots to take over unpleasant jobs — like cleaning up…

October 16 2011, 7:04am | Comments
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July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments
Link Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick…
According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks…

October 8 2010, 3:45am | Comments
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July 19 2010, 12:00pm | Comments
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July 19 2010, 11:46am | Comments
Link Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why…
While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans. Since the publication of his novels Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress…

June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments
Link Philip K Dick journals to be published next…
The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53,…

May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments
Link Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox
When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction…

January 24 2010, 6:06pm | Comments

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