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A Scanner Darkly: Philip K. Dick’s Most Personal Descent into Madness

Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is a semi-autobiographical novel of drug addiction set in a future American dystopia — and the basis for the Hugo Award finalist film starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Robert Downey, Jr."A Scanner Darkly is about a descent into the deep fears of our 24-hour consumer society: the twilight of intellectual and emotional collapse...A fascinating portrait of 70s Californian counter-culture."—The Guardian Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. Substance D doesn’t just alter the mind, it splits it in two, and neither side knows what the other is doing or that it even exists. Now, both sides are growing increasingly paranoid as Bob tries to evade Fred while Fred tries to evade his suspicious bosses. In this dystopian future, friends can become enemies, good trips can turn terrifying, and cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Caustically funny and somberly contemplative, Dick fashions a novel that is as unnerving as it is enthralling. 00:00 Intro 02:43 Peek into the plot 05:18 Fragmentation of identity 05:39 Dissociation Through Dual Perspective 07:02 Neurological and Metaphysical Schism: Substance D 08:22 The Faustian Bargain and the Loss of Self 10:06 Surveillance as Internalized Fragmentation 11:23 Autobiographical streeks 14:46 Paranoia, Surveillance, and Authorial Projection 17:49 Excerpt 23:41 Wrapping Up =============== Buy the book featured in this video: 📙 🇺🇸 Buy the book A Scanner Darkly https://bookshop.org/a/98861/97805475... =============== You can find my take on things summarised in the books I wrote. 📙🇺🇸Aperture https://buchshop.bod.ch/aperture-elen... 📙🇺🇸Chronicles of the Machine - Simulated conversations with Philip K. Dick https://buchshop.bod.ch/chronicles-of... 📙🇺🇸Zero Person: Reframing Autistic Cognition Beyond the Self https://buchshop.bod.ch/zero-person-e... 📙🇩🇪Zero Person: Autistische Kognition jenseits des Selbst https://buchshop.bod.ch/zero-person-e... 📙🇺🇸Book order: The end of the I https://www.bod.ch/buchshop/the-end-o... 📙🇩🇪Book order: Das Ende des Ichs https://www.bod.ch/buchshop/das-ende-... 📙🇺🇸#actuallyautistic - Living with Autism – A Poetic Exploration of the Spectrum https://buchshop.bod.ch/actuallyautis... =============== Image credits: Freepik