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Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick book

Canonical Writer of the Digital Age
ByLejla Kucukalic
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 10 December 2008
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203886847
Pages 192
eBook ISBN 9780203886847
Subjects Language & Literature
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Kucukalic, L. (2009). Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203886847

ABSTRACT

Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including previously unpublished letters and interviews, that Philip K. Dick is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture. Evaluating five novels that span Dick's career--from Martian Time Slip (1964) to Valis (1981)--Kucukalic explores the the intersections of identity, narrative, and technology in order to ask two central, but uncharted "Dickian" questions: What is reality? and What is human?

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|25 pages

Introduction: Philip K. Dick, Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

chapter 2|21 pages

Biography of a Writer

chapter 3|22 pages

Martian Time Slip: “The Mindset of Otherness”

chapter 4|22 pages

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: “Mechanical Universe and Its Discontents”

chapter 5|26 pages

A Maze of Death: “Life Is A Dream, But Is It Better That Way?”

chapter 6|15 pages

A Scanner Darkly: “The Reel Identity”

chapter 7|17 pages

The Search for Truth as an Antidote for Suffering in Valis

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