Philip Dick, Ubik - Homeostatic Machines And Payments - Sadler's Lectures

31/05/2025 16 min
Philip Dick, Ubik - Homeostatic Machines And Payments - Sadler's Lectures

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Episode Synopsis

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one of the main aspects of the worldbuilding in the novel, namely that there are intelligent machines of all sorts that serve human beings, but mostly for a price. They charge for their services, and often banter with, and take positions on human beings.

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