The World According to Philip K. Dick

1. Introduction: Third Reality — On the Persistence of Philip K. Dick
Alexander Dunst

Part I. History

2. Diagnosing Dick
Roger Luckhurst

3. ‘The Shock of Dysrecognition’: Biopolitical Subjects and Drugs in Dick’s Science Fiction
Chris Rudge

4. Cold-Pac Politics: Ubik’s Cold War Imaginary
Fabienne Collignon

Part II. Theory

5. Between Scanner and Object: Drugs and Ontology in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly

Marcus Boon

6. From Here to California: Philip K. Dick, The Simulacra and the Integration of ‘Germany’
Laurence A. Rickels

7.
Remember Tomorrow: Biopolitics of Time in the Early Works of Philip K. Dick
Yari Lanci

Part III. Adaptation

8. Dick without the Dick: Adaptation Studies and Slipstream Cinema
Mark Bould

9. Mr Tagomi’s Planet: Philip K. Dick and Japanese Speculative Fiction
Takayuki Tatsumi

10. On Three Comics Adaptations of Philip K. Dick
Stefan Schlensag

Part IV. Exegesis

11. The Hymn of Philip K. Dick: Reading, Writing and Gnosis in the ‘Exegesis’
Erik Davis

12. Stairway to Eleusis, or: Perennially Philip K. Dick
Richard Doyle

13. From Exegesis to Ecology
James Burton

Nyckelord: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary History