{"id":965,"date":"2015-12-13T22:28:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=965"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:14:39","slug":"on-philip-k-dicks-the-man-in-the-high-castle-1962-and-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"On Philip K. Dick\u2019s The Man in the High Castle, 1962 and 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My recent essay on Philip K. Dick\u2019s 1962 novel, comparing it with Amazon\u2019s 2015 The Man in the High Castle\u2018s 10 episodes. Summary: Amazon\u2019s adaptation of Dick\u2019s novel is a brilliant transformation of it just right for America\u2019s flirtation with fascism in 2015 (Trump, Cruz, et al).<\/p>\n<p>The novel was unusual for Dick but unleashed a decade of great writing by him: it\u2019s an experiment in counter-factual history, imagining what might have happened in the U.S. if Japan and Germany had got the A-Bomb first and won World War II.<\/p>\n<p>When you click on the link below, this .docx file containing the essay will download to your computer, stored in your download folder:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/on-Philip-K-Dick-High-Castle1.docx\">on-Philip-K-Dick-High-Castle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent essay on Philip K. Dick\u2019s 1962 novel, comparing it with Amazon\u2019s 2015 The Man in the High Castle\u2018s 10 episodes. Summary: Amazon\u2019s adaptation of Dick\u2019s novel is a brilliant transformation of it just right for America\u2019s flirtation with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}