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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785045703321

Autore

Rickels Laurence A

Titolo

I think I am [[electronic resource] ] : Philip K. Dick / / Laurence A. Rickels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

ISBN

1-4529-4656-6

0-8166-7364-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Science fiction, American - Philosophy

Philosophy in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introjection -- Endopsychic allegories -- Radio free Albemuth, VALIS, the divine invasion, the transmigration of Timothy Archer, confessions of a crap artist -- Schreber guardian -- Time out of joint -- Belief system surveillance -- A scanner darkly -- Deeper problems -- Veil of tears -- The cosmic puppets, Eye in the sky, The man who japed, The man in the high castle -- Go west -- Dick Manfred -- Timing -- Martian time-slip -- Glimmung -- Galactic pot-healer, Nick and the glimmung, a maze of death -- Spiritualism analogy -- Imitating the dead -- Dr. Bloodmoney, voices from the street, Mary and the giant -- Indexical layer -- Deus Irae -- Ilse -- Hammers and things -- Vulcan's hammer -- Crucifictions -- The world Jones made, counter-clock world -- Over there -- Solar lottery, our friends from Frolix 8 -- Martyrology -- Can't live, can't live -- The game-players of Titan, clans of the Alphane Moon, now wait for last year -- Lola -- Umwelt, mitwelt, and eigenwelt -- The simulacra -- Outer race -- The crack in space, the Ganymede takeover -- The German introject -- The Penultimate Truth, Lies, Inc. -- Materialism, idealism, and cybernetics -- Startling stories -- A couple of years -- Do androids dream of electric sheep? The zap gun -- Android empathy -- Homunculus and robot -- We can build you -- All of you are dead, I am alive -- The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik -- Go with the flow -- Flow my tears, the policeman said -- Room for thought -- Caduceus -- Dr. Futurity -- Jump -- Still -- A



wake -- Spätwerk -- Let the dead be -- Play bally -- Das hund.

Sommario/riassunto

For years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dick-though in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writer's work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dick's writing as well as a recognition of Rickels's own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary.