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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Philip K. Dick"”.
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Philip K. Dick and the Spectre of the Subject
This thesis considers the American author Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982) from a philosophical framework informed by the work of the contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou. Drawing from three different phases of Dick’s career, I aim to demonstrate that his The Man in the High Castle (1962), Time Out of …
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Ghost, Animal, Android: Trauma, Posthuman Ethics, and Radical Vulnerability in American Literature, 1940-2010
… Faulkner, Toni Morrison, William Heyen, and Philip K. Dick that resists an oversimplified notion of healing and instead experiments with nonhuman models of subjectivity as means through which to manage open wounds. Able to register traumatic events at the very edge of understanding, canonical …
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Φιλοσοφικές αναφορές στη λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού. Η περίπτωση της επιστημονικής φαντασίας.
… Η εργασία εστιάζει ιδιαίτερα στα έργα των Philip K. Dick, Ted Chiang και Μιχάλη Μανωλιού, αναδεικνύοντας πως η φανταστική λογοτεχνία λειτουργεί όχι μόνο ως αισθητική εμπειρία αλλά και ως μορφή φιλοσοφικού στοχασμού. Τέλος, διερευνάται ο τρόπος με τον οποίο η λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού …
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Hideous Progeny, Dreaming Robots, and the Limits of the Human
… and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, and the movie Bladerunner by Ridley Scott. I will be approaching each story as a separate entity unto themselves yet tie them together through the common lens of a need to explore what it means to be human, the treatment of those …
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Heimspeki í kvikmyndinni Blade Runner. Eru kvikmyndir heppilegt verkfæri til að leggja stund á heimspeki?
… árið 1982 í leikstjórn Ridley Scott eftir sögu Philip K. Dick, Do androids dream of electric sheep? Myndin vakti ekki mikla athygli til að byrja með en hróður hennar jókst jafnt og þétt og er hún í dag ein þekktasta kvikmyndaða vísindaskáldsagan. Gríðarlega mikið hefur verið skrifað um þessa …
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Out of network : technologies to connect with strangers
… by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick; and the Empathy Amulet, a wearable device that fosters an unconscious sense of our connection to strangers. Both devices use shared physical warmth as a way to cultivate empathy and a novel sense of connection with anonymous others. …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… American authors Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick, Toni Morrison, Linda Hogan, and Joy Harjo. Species Panic is divided into five chapters, each of which organizes around a particular species of nonhuman animal: dogs, bulls, androids, cows, and horses. While this project’s first three …
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Piper in the Woods: An opera in one act
… is based on a short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick. First published in 1953 in the Sci-Fi magazine Imagination, “Piper in the Woods” has since fallen into the public domain due to the magazine’s failure to renew the copyright. Set in the near future, the story follows Dr. Amelia …
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‘University Must Be Saved’ Genealogy As A Knowledge Approach.
… I will summarize the works of Franz Kafka, Philip K. Dick and James Ballard, but also recent contributions from artistic and pedagogical research. Keywords: Genealogy, Grid of Intelligibility, Knowledge, Power, Control, Subjectivation, EHEA, Audit, Automation.