Introduction

third reality — on the persistence of Philip K. Dick

Alexander Dunst

pp. 1-10

in: Alexander Dunst, Stefan Schlensag (eds), The world according to Philip K. Dick, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Abstract

What is new in our time is that we are beginning to see the plastic, trembling, quality of the koinos kosmos — which scares us, its insubstantiality — and the more-than-mere-vapor quality of the hallucination. Like [sf], a third reality is formed halfway between.1