PKD in France (1977)

A trio of videos comprising an interview with Philip K. Dick in 1977 at a sci-fi convention in France on the contrasting perceptions of science fiction in the US and France, the reception of his work on the continent and the political ramifications of all this in Light of the mid-70s “political culture” of the US.

Interesting stuff. There is something otherworldly about the videos; they are badly recorded and there’s lots of noise and information entropy — it’s almost as if Dick is a simulacrum of himself. A Dickian theme to say the least. All very Baudrillard and “not-real”. But as Dick would doubtlessly ask himself a thousand times a day: “What is real?”