Philip K. Dick Canonical Writer of the Digital Age [Hardcover]

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stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including previously unpublished letters and interviews, that Philip K. Dick is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into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?

 

 

Chapter 1: Introduction: Philip K. Dick, Canonical Writer of the Digital Age  Chapter 2: Biography of a Writer  Chapter 3: Martian Time Slip: The Mindset of Otherness   Chapter 4: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Mechanical Universe and Its Discontents   Chapter 5: A Maze of Death: Life Is A Dream, But Is It Better That Way?   Chapter 6: A Scanner Darkly: The Reel Identity   Chapter 7: The Search for Truth as an Antidote for Suffering in Valis

Lejla Kucukalic received her Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Delaware. She is currently translating the Bosnian-Herzegovinian novel, It Happened in July, about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica. Professor Kucukalic is teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York.