Posts tagged with ‘PKD’

  • Articles and Essays, Technoculture
    6 min

    Technomancer: PKD

    Divine Discontent

    Divine Discontent

    It was February of 1974, and the American science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick was in pain. The man whose darkly comic novels of androids, weird drugs, and false realities stand as some of the most brilliant and visionary in the genre had just had an impacted wisdom tooth removed, and the sodium pentathol was wearing off. A delivery woman arrived with a package of Darvon, and when the burly, bearded man opened the door, he was struck by the beauty...
  • Articles and Essays
    14 min

    Philip K. Dick’s Divine Interference

    VALIS, media, and 2-3-74

    VALIS, media, and 2-3-74

    It was February of 1974, and the American science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick was in pain. The man whose darkly comic novels of androids, weird drugs, and false realities stand as some of the most brilliant and visionary in the genre had just had an impacted wisdom tooth removed, and the sodium pentathol was wearing off. A delivery woman arrived with a package of Darvon, and when the burly, bearded man opened the door, he was struck by the beauty...
  • Technoculture
    36 min

    Techgnosis: Seed-Crystal

    Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information

    Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information

    It was February of 1974, and the American science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick was in pain. The man whose darkly comic novels of androids, weird drugs, and false realities stand as some of the most brilliant and visionary in the genre had just had an impacted wisdom tooth removed, and the sodium pentathol was wearing off. A delivery woman arrived with a package of Darvon, and when the burly, bearded man opened the door, he was struck by the beauty...