Finally got to Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Next on the list is William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy.
gemini://yuturna.com/~bori/read/electric_sheep.gmi
#pkd
Haven't listened to this amazing live performance in ages: Hypoxia (aka Drumcell) — Empathy Box (2016), very much in the same league as Alessandro Cortini. Slow, dark, mysterious and very powerful...
"An empathy box," he said, stammering in his excitement, "is the most personal possession you have. It's an extension of your body; it's the way you touch other humans, it's the way you stop being alone." — Philip K. Dick
Finally got around to watching Blade Runner (1982) after reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I definitely expected them to cut the whole Mercerism stuff out, and move away from the absurdist attitude of the book. Pretty good movie all around. I found the "father" edit appropriate, though I do see the point in preserving the original line.
"Names had changed, faces had changed, but the adversaries remained a permanent constant. The slave #Empire against those who struggled for justice and truth ... buried under the bulk of an Empire that embraced both the United States and the Soviet Union as twin, equal manifestations ... two portions of the Empire as divided up by the Emperor Diocletian for purely administrative purposes; at heart it was a single entity, with a single value system." - #PKD #PhilipKDick
I redrew this from the cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. It's in 4K, you're welcome.
#DADOES #PKD #DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep #PhilipKDick #BladeRunner
Parkd ( #PKD ) has released " Quarterly Activities/Appendix 4C Cash Flow Report " on Wed 30 Apr at 18:45 AEST #tax #government #Australia #Strategy #live
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"he injected his efforts with the aspiration to raise his output to the condition of literature"
-- Lethem on Phil Dick
I like the mental image I get of literature as a "condition"!
Apparently, the UK is creating a pre-crime division. I have only one comment to make: "A decision taken by a majority implies the existence of a minority report".
"In the warrens under the ruins of the great universities the student populations gradually gave up their futile attempts to maintain life as they understood it, and voluntarily—for the most part—entered forced-labor camps. So the dregs of the Second Civil War gradually ebbed away, and in 2004, as a pilot model, Columbia University was rebuilt and a safe, sane student body allowed to attend its police-sanctioned courses."
—from "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick
#pkd #uspol #fascism #Columbiauniversity #highered #education #scifi #acab
Useless quote for 16 Mar:
"People just have no criterion left to evaluate the importance of things."
~ Philip K. Dick, in an August 1976 interview with Daniel DePerez (Science Fiction Review, No. 19, Vol. 5, no. 3, August 1976)
Link to source:
https://philipdick.com/literary-criticism/frank-views-archive/interview-with-philip-k-dick-science-fiction-review/
Now that we're in doomscrolling times maybe I should go back and re-read #PKD, some of whose ouevre I last read almost 50 years ago. People tend to forget how much of what he wrote was set not in post-apocalyptic wastelands (though he did those too) but in grinding hyperinflation societies and the like.
Whoa, R. Crumb made a comic book adaptation of Philip K. Dick's "Exegesis"! It is much shorter but probably just as weird. #comics #pkd #rcrumb https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-crumb-from-weirdo-17/
Hi all! I’m looking for interesting accounts that talk sometimes about #LiteraryCriticism, or maybe other #literature and #CriticalTheory-based accounts. I’ve tried searching for authors I like, but haven’t had a huge amount of luck beyond finding posts. I’m especially looking for #SciFi criticism, but am curious about a lot of other genres too. Some other things I like are #DFW, #MarkFisher, #PKD, #BeckyChambers, #Solarpunk, #Cyberpunk, #Existentialism, #ArabLit, #Metamodernism. TY!
Incredible find for me arrived this morning. Volume 6 - The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick - 1980-1982.
😊
#PKD #PhilipKDick
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽 𝗞. 𝗗𝗶𝗰𝗸 --
Old pulp classic by PKD which doubtless has been the inspiration for countless successor stories like the Terminator series!
#philipkdick #pkd #secondvariety #sciencefiction #sf #novella
A young Philip K. Dick, with a sheep, name and age unknown.
Právě dočteno.
Stará škola sci-fi od legendy v tomto žánru. Dvoudílná sbírka povídek od Philipa K. Dicka, Planeta, která neexistovala 1 a 2, obsahuje povídky z autorova ranného období, tedy z 50-tých let minulého století.
Většina povídek jsou tématicky pro tvorbu PKD běžné : definice lidskosti, člověk vs. technologie, cestování časem, život přeživších po atomové válce, lidstvo vs. mimozemšťané, paranoia, dystopické světy, telepatie atd.
Vzhledem k tomu, že všechny povídky jsou cca 70 let staré, tak některé jsou dnes už spíš jen úsměvné.
Každopádně se tu najde pár velmi povedených kousků.
@knihy #kniha #knihy #povidky #horror #horor #SciFi #dystopia #dystopie #pkd #pkdick #philipkdick
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