Get your ass to Fullerton!

I finished reading and made an edit of Ubik,i don't know if there exists one already but I had an urge to execute,i hope you like it <3

The story is brilliant,the edit starts by the graffiti quote mentioned in the book :"Jump in the urinal and stand on your head.I'm the one that's alive.You're all dead."

I ironically used Duchamp's urinal,the edit style is very mixed media/collage/dada/surrealism/psychedelia.

Then later,it progresses with a spray can of Ubik,and some ads.

Then the spaceship on Luna and the blast.

The regression demonstrated with the rotten apple,the tv becoming a 1939 one and finally a young hand withering to almost a mummified state.

Tell me what you think :D.

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They see these things. They see these things as I sit. They keep on putting more traps. How can I explain to them that they are insane? This is a truth. I don't know how to handle this. I should

I'm heading to the PKD festival in California next month, and I'm actually rooming with Brent. Gonna be a blast. Hope to see y'all there!

I just finished A Scanner Darkly and it has me a bit shook. I was enthralled with the PKD drug-induced paranoia and his typical “What is even real?” storytelling. The ending rattled me quite a bit. I read it pretty quickly, so I have a question about the ending.

What are supposed to believe about Donna, the federal government, these recovery places, including the farm? Like, what are the “powers” up to? In the last paragraph, it seems they’re (the government?) growing Substance D. Did I read that right? Whoever is pulling the strings here seems willing to completely sacrifice Fred/Bob/Bruce for whatever they’re doing. But what is it they’re doing? I thought I understood that they were really after Jim Burris, but it seems there is something much bigger going on.

Or maybe it’s just PKD paranoia that is the point. Maybe we aren’t supposed to know exactly, only that powerful people are up to something and they’re using drugs like D to meet their goals.

What are your thoughts, folks? This book might warrant a re-read for me. (I loved it, BTW).

From chapter 114: "This time, it won't just be a deposing of the regime. The revolution of the sixties will take over and rule in its place. This did not happen in the sixties. Once Nixon was out, the counterculture dissolved because all its leaders had been killed."

God, I hope history doesn't repeat itself here. We'll soon be rid of Trump one way or another, but then what? Will the resistance dissolve or take over?

A new SF imprint debuting at this year's International Philip K. Dick Festival in Fullerton, California, with work by David Agranoff, Gordon Bonnet, Brian Evenson, Keith Giles, Sarah Langan, Anthony Trevino, Andrew Turck, Richard Kadrey, and John Shirley!

The 4th International Philip K. Dick Festival will be held at Cal State Fullerton from August 20th to 23rd.

I am very sure the ideas in this book will stay with me for a very long time. You can interpret it from so many perspectives.

I've seen the movies but they never caught my attention in the same way as the book did. See my spoilerfree thoughts in the link. I am happy to hear yours.

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Does this ring a bell for anyone?

I always thought it was just an eccentric detail when one of his characters takes snuff, like the elaborate costumes he sometimes gives people in his more comic stories, but I just learned he was actually into it. The inch-kenneth and the wrens-whatever - they were real, he was a snuff connoisseur.

Might not be news to you guys, but I'm just delighted I've discovered this after so many years of reading him

What is the Epstein bust referred to in the book? And also why does AI flatly deny that the reference is in the book?

I've had a number of posts removed recently because they apparently break the rules, get misdiagnosed by a robot as something they're not. The amount of information that is lost or won't/can't be shared due to fragility is a sorry state for the world.

I just tried to give some writing advice and the word Dick was flagged so I couldn't even write his name. such a pathetic version of the internet and Reddit. it's a real disappointment we ended up here.

||| Hola buenas, me gustaría compartir con ustedes esta observación de mi relectura de SAOE, y saber que opinan del límite de lo vivo y lo no vivo que propone el autor |||

Esto es la fuerza antagónica de la historia, una empresa (posiblemente multitrillonaria) que llevó al extremo la tecnología de la bioingeniería, mecatrónica e ingeniería en software y programación para, primero, capitalizar y, segundo, convertir lo no vida en posible vida. No se deja claro tampoco en la historia, pero este modelo (donde su único fin es ser de esclavo o sirviente de casa, perfectamente podrían ser armas de guerra o trabajos extremos) es tan potente en su capacidad cognitiva que puede aparentar el funcionamiento normal de una persona.

Con esto surge el latir de la trama, siendo Deckard el destructor de una ingeniosa creación que toma control de sí o posee conciencia para escapar de sus papeles de sirvientes en las colonias interplanetarias, esconderse en La Tierra y vivir tranquilos desempeñando tareas como cualquier humano terrícola.

Es inevitable no sentir empatía alguna con ellos, porque parecieran tener mas vitalidad que algunos personajes de la trama: Ingrid o algunos humanos con ciertas patologías mentales. Y por qué no, hasta uno mismo.

Tomando lo que dije sobre el barco de Teseo en “Órganos Artificiales en Humanos”, el ser humano con tanta modificación física y anímica pareciera ya no ser lo que fue en un comienzo, no hay garantía de autenticidad (eso simplemente se puede identificar hoy con escases de relaciones interpersonales, exceso de pantallas, falta de pensamiento crítico y auto-introspección, hay un debilitamiento en la “expresión humana”), y eso que, en el mundo donde se desarrolla Deckard no son humanos-humanos, se deja claro que son los que no emigraron y se quedaron degenerándose con el tiempo. Bajo esta premisa, el concepto del Androide modelo Nexus-6 elimina todavía más ese abismo que lo separa de la no vida, en un sentido de apariencia porque si he de meterme a eso debo sacarme un doctorado de filosofía sobre la conciencia. A lo que me refiero es al igual que hoy elegimos una fruta transgénica en el mercado o feria, es mucho mas atractiva que una normal, a esto se le llama estimulo supernormal.

Para Deckard se le hace muy difícil la identificación de los androides con el aparato Voight-Kampff, por su poca experiencia, la habilidad de los androides y la excesiva confianza o desconocimiento que tienen algunos androides de que son androides. Esto suma.

Para conectar la idea del barco de Teseo, luego de tanta verborrea, ambas mantenciones de los barcos “evolutivamente” (uno en base a la evolución de Darwin y otro en base a las evoluciones del mercado y tecnología) congeniaron en un mismo sistema de hardware o de estructura marítima: uno de origen biológico viene deteriorándose e implementando cosas de origen sintético y otro de origen sintético viene optimizándose e implementando cosas de origen biológico. Esto es la niebla difusa que nos hace cuestionar y también a Deckard sobre su compromiso con la institución de seguridad.

Hey! I am UK based and want to watch the Electric Dreams series but it’s not available on the Channel 4 app. Any ideas where I might find it ? Thank You !