Current Courses My Work Friends and Allies Contact Me	Dicktations: The Rhetorics of Philip K. Dick Dicktations  Richard Doyle Professor Penn State, Department of English 218 Williard Tu/Thu, 1:00-2:15 mobius@psu.edu Office Hours:  Tuesday/Thursday 2:30-3:45 and by appointment. 105 Burrowes 8148633754 Ubiki Wiki   "This brings me to my frightening premise. I seem to be living in my own novels more and more." Philip K. Dick     In scores of novels, hundreds of short stories and thousands of pages of exegesis, the writer Philip K. Dick grappled with the nature of reality and life in a world increasingly subject to simulation. In this course we will look to Dick's novels, essays and other writings for training in the rhetorics of information, rhetorical practices adequate to a world where the distinctions between organisms and machines, reality and fiction and life and death are subject to sudden and often indiscernible mutation.   Required Books   The Divine Invasion Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said The Game Players of Titan The Man in the High Castle Martian Time Slip In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis Radio Free Albemuth A Scanner Darkly The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Time out of Joint The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Ubik Valis   Recommended books:   Divine Invasions ( Biography)