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Book Time Out of Joint

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : Penguin Group USA
  • Release : 1994-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780140171730
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Philip K. Dick and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you've ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course."--"Rolling Stone" Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn't consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet he's never heard of named Marilyn Monroe. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them like "bowl of flowers" and "soft drink stand." When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known.

Book Is Time out of Joint

Download or read book Is Time out of Joint written by Aleida Assmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse. In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls "time regime of modernity" that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experience, historical theory, and our life-world of shared experience, explaining what we have both gained and lost during this profound transformation.

Book The Time is Out of Joint

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  • Author : Agnes Heller
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780742512511
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Time is Out of Joint written by Agnes Heller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Time Is Out of Joint presents an examination of Shakespeare's distinctly modern confrontation with time and temporality, the difference between the truth of the fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and revelatory truth, and finds that Shakespeare anticipated post-metaphysical philosophy and its central concerns at a time when modern metaphysics had not yet reached it speak. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Book Time Out of Joint

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  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : St Martins Press
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780312944278
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Philip K. Dick and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragel Gumm, who earns his living entering a complex newspaper puzzle contest in 1950's California, discovers that he actually lives in the future and that his contest entries predict missile attacks from the rebel lunar colonists

Book Out of Joint

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  • Author : Nomi Claire Lazar
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-28
  • ISBN : 0300245173
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Out of Joint written by Nomi Claire Lazar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible—and what is inevitable To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell deep change as a means to future good. But how could we know the future? Nomi Claire Lazar draws on stories across a range of cultures and contexts, ancient and modern, to show how leaders use constructions of time to frame events. These frames carry an implicit promise to secure or subvert an expected future, shaping belief in what is possible—and what is inevitable. “Ranging imaginatively across history and geography, this elegant book probes temporal sources of order and transformation. Its analytical wisdom discloses how calendars and representations of time shape political legitimacy, dispositions, and action.”—Ira I. Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time “Great political leaders, for good or ill, seek to shape our daily lives by playing with time itself. That is the central insight of this elegant, erudite volume, one that means I will henceforth listen to speeches and manifestos with new ears and new tools to rebut them.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America “Nomi Lazar gives us a fascinating exploration of the political construction of time itself, as structured by calendars, dating systems, and other mechanisms used for legitimation, revolution, and a myriad of other political purposes. A memorable and endlessly interesting book.”—Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School

Book We Can Build You

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 067975296X
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book We Can Build You written by Philip K. Dick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold. Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of Bladerunner and Barbarians at the Gate.

Book A Maze of Death

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  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0547572441
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book A Maze of Death written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Maze of Death is a sci-fi murder mystery set on a mysterious planet, with a twist ending that leaves the reader wondering just what they've been witnessing the whole time.

Book Eye in the Sky

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  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0547572549
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Eye in the Sky written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wry look at how different people see the world, told in the caustically fun style of award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.

Book Time Out of Joint

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  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Philip K. Dick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragel Gumm, who earns his living entering a complex newspaper puzzle contest in 1950s California, discovers that he actually lives in the future and that his contest entries predict missile attacks from the rebel lunar colonists. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Book Martian Time Slip

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip K Dick
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2011-03-24
  • ISBN : 0575107405
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Martian Time Slip written by Philip K Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mars is a desolate world. Largely forgotten by Earth, the planet remains helpless in the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who as boss of the plumbers' union has a monopoly over the vital water supply. Arnie Kott is obsessed by the past; the native Bleekmen, poverty-stricken wanderers, can see into the future; while to Manfred, an autistic boy, time apparently stops. When one of the colonists, Norbert Steiner, commits suicide, the repercussions are startling and bizarre.

Book A Scanner Darkly

Download or read book A Scanner Darkly written by Philip K. Dick and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1977 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.

Book The Penultimate Truth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780881844931
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book The Penultimate Truth written by Philip K. Dick and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1989 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After U.S. survivors have worked diligently in underground warrens for fifteen years, they begin to doubt the government's pronouncements about the progress of a nuclear war

Book Four Levels of Reality in Philip K  Dick s Time Out of Joint

Download or read book Four Levels of Reality in Philip K Dick s Time Out of Joint written by Yves Potin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Performance and Temporalisation

Download or read book Performance and Temporalisation written by Jodie McNeilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance and Temporalisation features a collection of scholars and artists writing about the coming forth of time as human experience. Whether drawing, designing, watching performance, being baptised, playing cricket, dancing, eating, walking or looking at caves, each explores the making of time through their art, scholarship and everyday lives.

Book Time Out of Joint

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty Broadbent
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780958105620
  • Pages : 31 pages

Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Betty Broadbent and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Time Binds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Freeman
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2010-11-29
  • ISBN : 0822348047
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Time Binds written by Elizabeth Freeman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By foregrounding bodily pleasure in the experience of time and its representation in queer literature, film, video, and art, Elizabeth Freeman challenges queer theorys recent emphasis on loss and trauma.

Book Gilles Deleuze s Philosophy of Time

Download or read book Gilles Deleuze s Philosophy of Time written by James Williams and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overall interpretation of Deleuze's philosophy alongside a critical introduction to one of the most important unifying ideas in his work: the construction of new and important philosophies of time.