Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later

Against the surreal backdrop of Disneyland in 1978, visionary science fiction author Philip K. Dick delivers a mind-bending lecture on the fragile nature of reality, the power of fiction, and the quest for authentic human experience in an increasingly mediated world.

How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later is at once a lecture on the aims of writing science fiction, an essay on Pre-Socratic philosophers, and a reflection on similarities between the author's life and the Book of Acts. Dick's distrust of mass media information systems and those who operated them circa 1978 is so prescient that it seems the author may have uploaded himself into one of the androids in his fiction, so as to continue observing the world.

Dick is only a prophet, however, in the same sense that John of Patmos is: he does not offer architectural drawings of the future, but visions in blinding, pulpy colour which startle our eyes such that we can no longer trust our view of the present. How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later is such a vision—both personal and intellectual, characteristically wild, stretching into the future and thousands of years into the past. [publisher’s information]

This is a smallish book (7 x 11 cm)!

Edited by Sebastian Clark with Luca Mantero, Lukas Eigler-Harding, Ivan Kirwan-Taylor

Design: Alaska, Alaska
Publisher: ISOLARII
ISBN 9798987123126 
120 pages
2024

Stock: ✔
17 Eur