ENGL1102 Class Notes
March 14, 2012
Presentation on Philip K Dick
· Philip K. Dick
o Born December 16th 1932
o Twin sister died
§ Later wrote about a “phantom twin”
o Went to UC Berkeley, dropped out
o Won Hugo for “The Man in the High Castle” in 1963
o Wrote “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” in 1968
§ “Blade Runner” based on this
o Attempted suicide twice
o Died of stroke in 1982
o Married and Divorced 5 times
o Used drugs often
· His works
o 44 novels, 121 short stories
§ 67 short stories from 1952-1953
o 33 non-fiction essays
o 11 movies based off his works
§ Blade Runner “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
§ Total Recall “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”
§ Confessions d’un Barjo “Confessions of a Crap Artist”
§ Screamers “Second Variety”
§ Impostor “Impostor”
§ Minority Report “The Minority Report”
§ Paycheck “Paycheck”
§ A Scanner Darkly “A Scanner Darkly”
§ Next “The Golden Man”
§ The Adjustment Bureau “The Adjustment Team”
§ King of the Elves “King of the Elves”
· TIME article “His Dark Vision of the Future is Now”
o Says that Dick didn’t like some adaptations
o Scanner Darkly
o Minority Report
o Blade Runner
§ Dick got to see parts of it
§ Quote about never going near Hollywood again
o Recent Adaptations
§ Adjustment Bureau
§ King of the Elves
§ Family suing Google over Nexus 1 phone
o All works have core ideas
§ What is the division between human and machine?
§ Why are some machines more human than humans
§ Defines humans by empathy
§ What does it mean to be real?
· Total Recall – memory loss
· Minority Report – looking into the future
§ Human component emphasized
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