Spatializing technoscience: The anthropology of science and technology and the making of national, colonial, and postcolonial space and place
S Helmreich - Reviews in Anthropology, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Reviews in Anthropology, 2003•Taylor & Francis
Horselover Fat, the schizophrenic protagonist of Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel, VALIS
(1987), has an epiphany early into the book's narrative that convinces him that our present-
day phenomenological world is an elaborate simulation crafted by the Christian God to mask
the fact that humans are still living within Biblical, New Testament time, under the oppressive
power of the Roman Empire. Everywhere he looks—on television, on beer cans in gutters—
(1987), has an epiphany early into the book's narrative that convinces him that our present-
day phenomenological world is an elaborate simulation crafted by the Christian God to mask
the fact that humans are still living within Biblical, New Testament time, under the oppressive
power of the Roman Empire. Everywhere he looks—on television, on beer cans in gutters—
Horselover Fat, the schizophrenic protagonist of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel, VALIS (1987), has an epiphany early into the book’s narrative that convinces him that our present-day phenomenological world is an elaborate simulation crafted by the Christian God to mask the fact that humans are still living within Biblical, New Testament time, under the oppressive power of the Roman Empire. Everywhere he looks—on television, on beer cans in gutters—
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