Extrapolation, June 22nd, 2006
The quintessential Dick character is the paradigm of masculine subjectivity in crisis: he is uncertain in his job, his interpersonal relationships, and in his own sense of himself. Carl Freedman has noted that Dick's "stature [as the greatest of all science fiction authors] can be at least partly explained by his preeminence in the production of paranoiac ideology, his uniquely rigorous and consistent representations of human subjects caught in the web of commodities and conspiracies" (Incomplete Projects 157). Dick's most meaningful representations of subjectivity are almost exclusively of ...
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