Germany: A Science Fiction

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.anti-oedipuspress.com/p/germany.html

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> In I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick, Laurence A. Rickels investigated the
> renowned science fiction author’s collected work by way of its
> relationship to schizophrenia (as concept and condition). In his new
> book, Germany: A Science Fiction, he focuses on psychopathy as the
> undeclared diagnosis implied in flunking the empathy test. The switch
> from psychosis to psychopathy as an organizing limit opens up the
> prospect of a genealogy of the Cold War era, which Rickels begins with
> a reading of Dick’s The Simulacraand follows out with readings of
> Simulacron 3, Fahrenheit 451, The Day of the Triffids, This Island
> Earth, Gravity’s Rainbow, and many other genealogical stations.
>
> Nazi Germany hosted the first season of realization of science fantasy
> with the rocket at the top of this arc. After WWII, the genre had to
> delete the recent past and begin again within the new Cold War
> opposition. Certainly the ancestral prehistory was still intact (as
> seen in the works of, for instance, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells). But
> at the bulk rate of its generic line of production, SF would
> henceforth become native to the Cold War habitat.
>
> This study addresses the syndications of the missing era in the SF
> mainstream, the phantasmagoria of its returns, and the extent of the
> integration of all the above since some point in the 1980s. Rickels
> works through the preliminaries of repair that must be met in a world
> devastated by psychopathic violence before mourning can be even a
> need. While I Think I Am was the endopsychic allegory of Dick’s
> corpus, Germany takes the corpus as a point of context for the
> endopsychic genealogy of the post-WWII containment and integration of
> psychopathy.
>
> http://www.anti-oedipuspress.com/2013/12/germany_10.html
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