Coincidence, Chaos, & Archetypes in Our Science-Fictional World
You don’t have to be a hardheaded materialist skeptic or an atheist to be troubled by the idea of synchronicity. Even if we believe in God, many people aren’t comfortable living in a world of signs and miracles.
Breaking Up the Narrative: The 2015 Philip K. Dick Film Festival
Reality Sandwich talks with Philip K. Dick Film Festival Director Daniel Abella about all things P.K.D. in 2015.
Philip K. Dick’s cult novel ‘Man in the High Castle’ becoming an Amazon TV pilot
One of Amazon’s new pilot episodes will be an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “Man in the High Castle,” an alternative history dystopia where the Germans had won WWII.
William Irwin Thompson on the Horizons of Planetary Culture
My second rap with poet-philosopher William Irwin Thompson, on the transformations of self and society in an age of collapse and emergence – of cyborgs, surveillance, and psychedelics, paranoid apocalypticism and inspired new visions for our species…
Review of John Alan Simon’s Radio Free Albemuth
This expose on John Simon’s Radio Free Albemuth comes after watching the film at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Philip K. Dick’s Radio Free Albemuth
P.K.D. readers rejoice! Boardwalk Empire co-star Shea Wigham plays Philip K. Dick himself in this exciting indie film adaptation of “Radio Free Albemuth.”
Philip K. Dick as a Kind of Perennial Philosopher? Richard Doyle on the Meaning of VALIS
Professor Richard Doyle of Penn State, author of “Darwin’s Pharmacy” and the afterward to “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick” joins us for VALIS, chapter 11 of the R.S. ReRead.
Erik Davis on VALIS, P.K.D. and High Weirdness
Erik Davis joins the VALIS reread to talk about “High Weirdness,” Philip K. Dick, writing in ‘Chapel Perilous’ and hallucinatory fiction.
R.S. ReReads: VALIS — Chapters 6 & 7
R.S. ReReads examine your favorite media: counter-culture classics, science fiction, films, T.V. and video games in search of gnostic insights and portals to the Otherworld hidden in the plain site of pop. This month we take on Philip K. Dick’s VALIS.
R.S. ReReads: VALIS – Chapters 4 and 5
R.S. ReReads examine your favorite media: counter-culture classics, science fiction, films, T.V. and video games in search of gnostic insights and portals to the Otherworld hidden in the plain site of pop. This month we take on Philip K. Dick’s VALIS.