{"173371":{"#nid":"173371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ellis Presents Paper at First International Philip K. Dick Conference in Dortmund","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFirst-year Brittain Fellow Jason W. Ellis delivered his paper, \u201cPhilip K. Dick as Pioneer of the Brain Revolution,\u201d at the first international Philip K. Dick conference held at the Technische Universit\u00e4t Dortmund, Germany on 15-18 November 2012 (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/philipkdickconferencedortmund.com\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/philipkdickconferencedortmund.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/philipkdickconferencedortmund.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E). The conference brought together scholars from Australia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to discuss their interdisciplinary research focusing on Dick\u2019s fiction and lasting cultural influence across media. In his conference paper, Ellis argues that Dick\u2019s introspective research during the \u201cBrain Revolution\u201d of the 1970s, an era of significant medical and scientific research specifically focused on the human brain that was also popularized in print, television, and film, had a significant effect on the writer\u2019s final four novels: \u003Cem\u003EA Scanner Darkly\u003C\/em\u003E (1977), \u003Cem\u003EVALIS\u003C\/em\u003E (1981), \u003Cem\u003EThe Divine Invasion\u003C\/em\u003E (1981), and \u003Cem\u003EThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer\u003C\/em\u003E (1982). Drawing on Dick\u2019s \u003Cem\u003EExegesis\u003C\/em\u003E (2011) and interviews with Dick and his family and friends, Ellis demonstrates that the writer\u2019s exposure to popular neuroscientific findings in popular magazines and nonfiction books turned his Gnostic explanations about his so-called \u201c2-3-74\u201d experiences, a series of unexplained visual and audial hallucinations that began in February 1974 that had a lasting effect on the author\u2019s life and outlook until his death in 1982, toward an explanation infused with the hard sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2012-11-27 11:15:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:14","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"173451":{"id":"173451","type":"image","title":"Jason Ellis","body":null,"created":"1449179012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:32","changed":"1475894814","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:54","alt":"Jason Ellis","file":{"fid":"195789","name":"ellis_jason_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ellis_jason_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ellis_jason_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":21675,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ellis_jason_2_0.jpg?itok=o_N-DlCl"}}},"media_ids":["173451"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9954","name":"Brittain Fellow"},{"id":"49891","name":"international conference"},{"id":"167171","name":"science fiction"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/philipkdickconferencedortmund.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/philipkdickconferencedortmund.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jason.ellis@lmc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}