Apparently, the UK is creating a pre-crime division. I have only one comment to make: "A decision taken by a majority implies the existence of a minority report".
Hi all! I’m looking for interesting accounts that talk sometimes about #LiteraryCriticism, or maybe other #literature and #CriticalTheory-based accounts. I’ve tried searching for authors I like, but haven’t had a huge amount of luck beyond finding posts. I’m especially looking for #SciFi criticism, but am curious about a lot of other genres too. Some other things I like are #DFW, #MarkFisher, #PKD, #BeckyChambers, #Solarpunk, #Cyberpunk, #Existentialism, #ArabLit, #Metamodernism. TY!
Para o #QuartaCapa cujo tema é "Livros de contos ou crônicas", trago "Histórias de Robôs", antologia em três volumes, editados por Isaac Asimov e que, além dele, conta também com autores como Philip K. Dick e Arthur C. Clarke, entre outros. Publicado no Brasil pela L&PM, também disponível em e-book.
Há uma boa curadoria, os contos são organizados por temas e, antes de cada um, temos um breve prefácio contextualizando a época, relação da sociedade com a tecnologia e até mesmo relações de trabalho.
Meu favorito é "Adeus ao Mestre" (1940), de Harry Bates que está presente no Volume 1. É o conto que deu origem ao filme "O Dia Em Que A Terra Parou" (The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951). Leia mesmo que você já tenha assistido ao filme, com certeza irá te surpreender!
PS: O Volume 2 contém "O homem bicentenário" (Isaac Asimov)
V1: https://eggplant.place/book/5GtYIE6JmZJP82NokneWOv
V2: https://eggplant.place/book/2oozOZLGjVNSd9bz3sOgOo
V3: https://eggplant.place/book/6EaRT3KtsePdiOWhQpUcjX
Wunderbar, arte wiederholt die PKD-Doku: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/051147-000-A/philip-k-dick-und-wie-er-die-welt-sah/ #philipkdick #pkd #sciencefiction #valis #ubik #scannerdarkly #totalrecall (free stream, languages that can be chosen: german, french, english.)
“Is the cannibal lifestyle for you? Let’s ask your 401(k)”
#SEO #PKD #contentStrategy @mattblaze
I'm reading a review of The Creator that goes on about the implications of Tyrell Corp's motto "more human than human" in Blade Runner, scoffs at the White Zombie relation, then never once notes it's a nod to Theodore Sturgeon. It's amazing how some people can be simultaneously famous yet totally unheard of.
#PKD was no slouch as a philosopher for sure.
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"... #PKD's #SecondVariety, and not even #TheMatrix, but just as #surveillance technology has surpassed what was possible in #Orwell's #1984, in particular in the #PRC, we are moving beyond #Fahrenheit451, too.
The biggest trouble is that the ancient #Viking #Norns seem to be weaving all those #dystopian fates of humanity into one.
In the May 15th #TheEconomist's Editor's Picks podcast, they were looking historically at the impact on productivity growth...
@futurebird for me those are a good example of 'prediction or inspiration?'
A lot of #PKDick is that way, too. If you go to Technovelgy & browse the #PKD category it's a catalog of social-control #DarkPatterns. The world should be grateful he didn't go into advertising. He'd've still crashed & burned personally but been orders of magnitude more influential than Jay Chiat, who did more than enough damage with just his own deeply-limited intellect.
http://technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorTotalAlphaList.asp?AuNum=13
Fans of Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick might enjoy this book, which explores their weird (and weirdly similar) experiences in the early 1970s: the McKenna brothers' La Chorrera experiment, Wilson's Chapel Perilous, and PKD's 2-3-74
I'm getting started on #Substack, and my first post is an introduction to my literary hero Philip K. Dick.
https://cliffjones.substack.com/p/pkd-mega-novel
#PhilipKDick #PKD #PKDick #PKDNovels #books #fiction #bookstodon @bookstodon #sf #sff #sffh #scifi #scienceFiction #speculativeFiction #literature #litfic #dreampunk #cyberpunk
“Dick’s published output — at least 35 novels and countless short stories — ranges from sublime to inscrutable, which is partly a result of volume. His book advances were skimpy and there was a family to support, so he wrote quickly, often fueled by amphetamine tablets. (Dick’s typing speed: 120 words per minute.) If you’re a stickler for prose style and hold a zero-tolerance policy toward the word “boobies,” this is not your fellow.”
Whenever I think of #AI and #LLMs hallucinating, I think of #PKD.
#PhillipKDick / #writing / #SciFi / #NYT <https://nytimes.com/2022/10/26/books/best-philip-k-dick-novels.html>
The extraordinary thing about the #JohnMastodon vs Elmo Musk thing is that it's naturally occurring #gnostic #mythology. Musk is exactly the egoist demiurge who claims to be the creator but creates nothing, while #JohnMastodon is Abraxas: no two accounts can agree on their details, they are contradictory and multiple, they cannot be reduced to a single instance.
#PKD and #CarlJung would have been peeing their pants if they could have watched this occurring in real time.
Cyborgs are not abstract theoretical constructs.
Cyberpunk has ALWAYS been a warning about what capital does to bodies, amongst others. Disabled people live and breathe this stuff and not in some edgy way, but because it's our lives. We are here and we are hybrid multiplicities and assemblages. We are More Human Than Human, and in the words of Roy Batty in Bladerunner: We Want More Life, F-cker!
Throwback thursday! I read a lot of Philip K Dick when I first started out in digital art, using Firealpaca on my crappy laptop. This one was a homage of sorts, Android Dreams. (I later found out there was a show with that name, but I didn't see it - this was inspired by the book and the movie.)
@zaphodgjd I think #PKD wrote something about this in the Exegesis.
Also, because I never wrote an intro post, here are some of my interests:
#history #quantum #Chicago #KnowledgeFight #antifascism #ict #scifi #whiskey #languages #pkd #cooking #exercise #russia (academically - Putin must go and the war crimes must stop) #genocide #africa #middleeast #idsg #podcasts #northcarolina #darkbeer
Among others.
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