Happy birthday, Philip K Dick
By Simon Sellars • Dec 18th, 2008 •
Category: Kafka, Philip K. Dick, features, film, perception, schizophrenia
‘We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups — and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into the heads of the reader, the viewer, the listener.’ If alive today, Philip K Dick would be 80. A few thoughts on Dick, Ballard, Kafka and perception.