…Literally spent the entire day eating crunchy snacks and drinking cider + reading the massively entertaining Blade Runner (or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) by Philip K. Dick.
Felt around for a pencil, but then realized that I’m free from the need to annotate…for the next week or two, at least.
cider & PKD
WordandFilm.com: ‘Total Recall.’ ‘Minority Report.’ ‘Paycheck.’ ‘Next.’ All of these films have two things in common: They’re all based on a story by legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick. And they all deviate significantly from the source material. Never inclined to pass up an opportunity to render aid to the industry we love, we here at Word & Film thought we would do some of the legwork for Hollywood’s next round of Philip K. Dick adaptations.
My painting A PHILIP K. DICK MOMENT will be featured in Author Jeff Kripal’s new textbook COMPARING RELIGIONS published by John Wiley & Sons. More details soon.
Here’s the flyer for the theater adaption of UBIK I wrote the music for. I’ll post the music on the relevant channels soon.If you’re in the Berlin area, I highly recommend coming to see UBIK. My dear friends Kasia and Lisa really outdid themselves with this one. And all on no budget. Höchst empfehlenswert!
well, that’s kind of cool :D
Philip K. Dick - Brèche dans l’espace Editions Marabout Science-Fiction n° 477 de 1974 (by jaipatoulunivu)
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“On Feb. 20, 1974, [Philip K.] Dick was hit with the force of an extraordinary revelation after a visit to the dentist for an impacted wisdom tooth for which he had received a dose of sodium pentothal. A young woman delivered a bottle of Darvon tablets to his apartment in Fullerton, Calif. She was wearing a necklace with the pendant of a golden fish, an ancient Christian symbol that had been adopted by the Jesus counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
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 total recall of the entire sum of knowledge. Dick claimed to have access to what philosophers call the faculty of ‘intellectual intuition’: the direct perception by the mind of a metaphysical reality behind screens of appearance. Many philosophers since Kant have insisted that such intellectual intuition is available only to human beings in the guise of fraudulent obscurantism, usually as religious or mystical experience, like Emmanuel Swedenborg’s visions of the angelic multitude. This is what Kant called, in a lovely German word, ‘die Schwärmerei,’ a kind of swarming enthusiasm, where the self is literally en-thused with the God, o theos. Brusquely sweeping aside the careful limitations and strictures that Kant placed on the different domains of pure and practical reason, the phenomenal and the noumenal, Dick claimed direct intuition of the ultimate nature of what he called ‘true reality.’”
- Simon Critchley, “Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher”
Illustration: Leif Parsons](http://25.media.tumblr.com/4793f07622e9de320a6a1120eef727f5/tumblr_mkikt2OrW91rdvxiao1_500.jpg)
“On Feb. 20, 1974, [Philip K.] Dick was hit with the force of an extraordinary revelation after a visit to the dentist for an impacted wisdom tooth for which he had received a dose of sodium pentothal. A young woman delivered a bottle of Darvon tablets to his apartment in Fullerton, Calif. She was wearing a necklace with the pendant of a golden fish, an ancient Christian symbol that had been adopted by the Jesus counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
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 total recall of the entire sum of knowledge. Dick claimed to have access to what philosophers call the faculty of ‘intellectual intuition’: the direct perception by the mind of a metaphysical reality behind screens of appearance. Many philosophers since Kant have insisted that such intellectual intuition is available only to human beings in the guise of fraudulent obscurantism, usually as religious or mystical experience, like Emmanuel Swedenborg’s visions of the angelic multitude. This is what Kant called, in a lovely German word, ‘die Schwärmerei,’ a kind of swarming enthusiasm, where the self is literally en-thused with the God, o theos. Brusquely sweeping aside the careful limitations and strictures that Kant placed on the different domains of pure and practical reason, the phenomenal and the noumenal, Dick claimed direct intuition of the ultimate nature of what he called ‘true reality.’”
- Simon Critchley, “Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher”
Illustration: Leif Parsons
