Ubik by Philip k. Dick - Gnostic Paranoia - AB+C 99
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- In this episode we discussed 'Ubik' (1969) by Philip K. Dick, a piece of iconic science-fiction set in a world of psychic corporate espionage and dead relatives suspended in perpetual "halflife". Throughout the novel Gnostic and Platonic philosophy exude through perpetually inventive interpretations of advertising culture, psychotic mental states and satire of domestic mod cons. We talked about Dick's fixation on material culture as it appears in his other stories 'The Man in the High Castle' (1962) and 'Pay for the Printer' (1956).
Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.
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This is brilliant. I read Ubik a few years back, and I absolutely loved it, but none of my friends were interested in reading it, so I didn't get to discuss it with anyone. So it's just lovely to hear such a smart conversation about it. I have no idea how the algorithm got me to you, but I'm glad it did.
So glad you enjoyed the episode! You can find more discussion of science-fiction in our back catalogue, including Blade Runner, 2001 A Space Odyssey and Akira
Your Podcast is amazing. I’m sadly binge watching as I work away at my Masters. Your debates are spot on. Thank you!
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How COOL 😎
cheers, mate
10 more hours of this please
Do you imagine that Ubik could be made into a commercially viable film?
it could work but you'd need to lean into the stylisation / tropiness and flattened affect. weirdly could be quite a good wes anderson film i think.
Only Christopher Nolan could do that
25:00 William Gibson never once painted for us a "cool sci-fi location". All of his descriptions serve the purpose of elaborating how the technology works, and why it does what it does.
We agree, for more of our thoughts check out our two-part series on Neuromancer: th-cam.com/video/lmLfkgR1wJ4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xSV0xgKSdRrGJheO
Will you do some modern architects? Like BIG
GREAT DEBATE AND TALK!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
I have no idea how you guys sit like that, and for and hour no less. I couldn't sit like that for even one minute.
Y.o.u.t.h.
It really feels like Dick is trying to promote God and religion with this book. Am I missing something? Or is this just religious propoganda to promote the idea of faith?
Oh no. Not God. Noooop. No one smart can ever believe in anything but nothing mattering! Grow up child