What, A Visionary Artist Not Recognized Until After His Death? Shocking.
As yet another Phillip K. Dick inspired story hits the big screen ("Paycheck" with Ben Affleck), Wired News takes a look at the life and times of the writer who pretty much defined, from beyond the grave, modern Hollywood's "anxious surrealism" driven science fiction.
Dick wrote about that broken reality in the 1970s ...
"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."
As yet another Phillip K. Dick inspired story hits the big screen ("Paycheck" with Ben Affleck), Wired News takes a look at the life and times of the writer who pretty much defined, from beyond the grave, modern Hollywood's "anxious surrealism" driven science fiction.
Dick wrote about that broken reality in the 1970s ...
"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."
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