
Philip Dick, Ubik - Coldness, Exhaustion, and Death - Sadler's Lectures
This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Ce…
Sadler's Lectures · Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler
June 18, 202520m 8s
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Show Notes
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 the experience of bone-chilling cold, exhaustion and fatigue, and eventual death of a particularly gruesome sort that several of the characters experience once they are in cold-pac and in half-life. At first, they think that it is being caused by Pat Conley, who even thinks that to be the case herself, but it is actually the effect of Jory, a young man in half life, who is "eating" the other half-lifers. The main character, Joe Chip experiences this himself, but is saved for the moment by the application of Ubik in the form of a spray can
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