Showing posts with label Phillip K. Dick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phillip K. Dick. Show all posts
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Has anyone read Clans of the Alphane Moon?
For regular readers of the blog: Has anyone read Phillip K. Dick's Clans of the Alphane Moon? I'm thinking of using it for a literature and mental illness course, but I'm wondering if there's enough to talk about in the novel. Knowing Phillip K. Dick, I suspect that there is, but I wanted your take on it. Let me know.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Creation of the Humanoids
Creation of the Humanoids is an early sixties film, reputed to have been Andy Warhol's favorite picture (what a recommendation!). Really, though, this is a fascinating movie. Some of its speculations on A.I. were so advanced that it would take till A.I. (1998 or so), before Hollywood would again interrogate the issue of artificial intelligence so deftly. There is definitely a Phillip K. Dick-like fascination here with what separates man from machine. The movie also predicts that artificial intelligence will become the civil rights issue of the future, with the Order of Flesh and Blood violently oppressing the A.I. population. Some people have criticized the sets and special effects. Frankly, I love them myself, because they kind of remind me of that retro-future look so popular in the sixties. But please, check it out for yourself. It's a great movie that pulls no punches in its explorations of the boundaries between men and machines (and the film actually appears to side with the latter, to my great approval.).
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