David Lapoujade's Philosophical Reading of Philip K. Dick

In an interview with Christophe Le Gac for artpress, philosopher David Lapoujade discusses his book "L'Altération des mondes. Versions de Philip K. Dick" (Minuit, 2021). Lapoujade explores Dick's work from "The Man in the High Castle" (1962) to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968), arguing that Dick's delirious universes resonate with contemporary experiences of collapsing worlds and artificial realities. He connects Dick's concept of reality as something to be created rather than perceived to Gilles Deleuze's notion of "aberrant movements." Lapoujade emphasizes Dick's idealism, where all worlds belong to psychisms, and his cybernetic view of reality as programmed information. He also highlights the figure of the "bricoleur" in Dick's stories—survivors who patch together fragments of livable worlds. The book is published in Minuit's "Paradoxe" collection (160 pages, 16 euros). The interview echoes Claire Viain's article on Dick in artpress no. 488 (May 2021).