Date: Thu, 06 Jun 96 10:27 EDT
From: David_I_PADDY-AT-umail.umd.edu (dp89)
Subject: PKD


vague, vague citation here:  re:  does Baudrillard talk about Philip K. Dick.
I'm quite sure that he does in an article that appeared in Science Fiction
Studies in an issue on science fiction and postmodernism.  Most of the
article was on J. G. Ballard's Crash.  Baudrillard is also clearly
influenced by Ballard, and recently Ballard has shown some Baudrillardian
influence.  Feedback loops.  [However Ballard's letter in that issue of SFS
is interesting for his attack on Baudrillard's reading of Crash--quite a lot
of correspondence came about after that letter]  Anyway, I think
Baudrillard talks about PKD's book The Simulacra (appropriately enough) and
he may also quote him in Seduction.   sorry for the extreme vagueness.

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timothy leary r.i.p.