Summary
Philip Dick: Dark Scan
Dark Scan is another intelligent and visionary work by Philip K. Dick that deals with altered states of consciousness. This author builds his recognizable dark atmosphere around the drug culture in California in the early nineties, and the way in which narcotics become an active element of interpersonal and social relations.
And in this novel, with a convincing realistic style, Dick puts his futuristic stamp on topics such as the influence of capitalism and state oppression on the mental and spiritual state of the individual. Also, this book exposes all the absurdity and hypocrisy of the "wars on drugs" that are still being waged today. In Dark Scanning, Philip K. Dick questions the identities of his heroes, thereby opening up to readers a handful of questions whose answers are sought through the dynamic action, and ends by exposing the power relations that determine our daily lives even beyond this text.
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