The Precession of Palmer Eldritch:A Baudrillardian Reading of Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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In "A Misreading Gone Too Far? Baudrillard Meets Philip K. Dick" (2008), Jorge Martins Rosa questions the relevance of the connection Baudrillard himself establishes between his concept of hyper-reality and Dick's constant reference to simulacrum. Rosa formulates doubts about the alleged similarity of Baudrillard and Dick's depiction of the simulacrum by analyzing the evolution of Baudrillard's thought between L'Echange symbolique et la mort (1975) and Le Crime parfait (1995). By providing an inter-pretation of Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) based on the notion of hyperreality as it is developed in Simulacra and Simulation (1981), the purpose of this presentation is to reconsider the possibility of a Baudrillardian reading of some of Dick's novels. The novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch depicts two drugs -called Can-D and Chew-Z -that have the capacity to undermine the ontological stability of the real world. I argue that while Can-D corresponds to Baudrillard's first or-der of simulacra (the order of representation) and can be understood in terms of illusion, Chew-Z marks the transition from reality to hyperreality (the order of simulation) and from "signs which dissimulate something to signs which dissimulate that there is nothing" (Simulacra and Simulation 6) .

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  • 比較社会文化研究

    比較社会文化研究 28 63-68, 2010-09-30

    九州大学大学院比較社会文化研究科

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