Germany: A Science Fiction

[Mark Kohut]

"Before mourning can be even a need" 

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> On Jul 19, 2015, at 2:25 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.anti-oedipuspress.com/p/germany.html
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>> 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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