Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the PostmodernOnce the sole possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. The kind of world he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is coming closer to most of us: shifting realities, unstable relations, uncertain moralities. Philip K Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern examines a wide range of Dick's work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels. Christopher Palmer analyses the puzzling and dazzling effects of Dick's fiction, and argues that at its heart is a clash between exhilarating possibilities of transformation, and a frightening lack of ethical certainties. Dick's work is seen as the inscription of his own historical predicament, the clash between humanism and postmodernism being played out in the complex forms of the fiction. The problem is never resolved, but Dick's ways of imagining it become steadily more ingenious and chal |
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Page 38
... kind to each other , because if we are not , we will exter- minate each other , or become androids , ceasing to be personages of whom a word like ' we ' can be used . When the issue is put as starkly as this , and in a situation in ...
... kind to each other , because if we are not , we will exter- minate each other , or become androids , ceasing to be personages of whom a word like ' we ' can be used . When the issue is put as starkly as this , and in a situation in ...
Page 123
... kind . He ponders ear- nestly , and determines that the jewel represents and reflects on nothing ; it is simply interesting and valuable in itself . Kasoura's interpretation arises from the circumstances of the novel's history and , as ...
... kind . He ponders ear- nestly , and determines that the jewel represents and reflects on nothing ; it is simply interesting and valuable in itself . Kasoura's interpretation arises from the circumstances of the novel's history and , as ...
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... kind of moment of empathetic contact more and more tends to be offered as outside the stream of the plot , as a kind of coda , occurring after matters have been decided , usually for ill . Formally speaking , it is on the margins : a ...
... kind of moment of empathetic contact more and more tends to be offered as outside the stream of the plot , as a kind of coda , occurring after matters have been decided , usually for ill . Formally speaking , it is on the margins : a ...
Contents
Philip K Dick and the Postmodern | 3 |
Complications of Humanism and Postmodernism | 30 |
Static and Kinetic in Dicks Political Unconscious | 44 |
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