Weirdosphere

Erik Davis

Erik Davis

Erik Davis is an American writer, scholar, journalist, and public speaker whose writings range from rock criticism to cultural analysis to esoteric explorations of California’s history.

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Do Androids Dream of Reading Philip K. Dick?

Reading PKD’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” as prophecy

with Erik Davis

In October, Erik Davis returns to Weirdosphere to guide us through a close and prophetic reading of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, one of Dick’s most explicitly ethical novels, and best known as the novel that formed the basis for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Davis will present Dick’s work and life in the late 1960s and lay out some of the novel’s major themes. We will be reading the novel not so much as fiction or science fiction but as a prophetic lens on today’s polycrisis, aspects of which resonate uncannily with Dick’s philosophical and visionary concerns. Registration opens September 9.

This course starts October 1.

WS103: Hunting the White Whale

A Course on Moby-Dick

with Erik Davis and J. F. Martel

For once, the expression “do a deep dive” is justified.  Join the crew, and together we’ll chase the white whale into the depths.

This course concluded in March 2026 and is now self-paced.

ED101: The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick

Reading PKD’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch as prophecy

with Erik Davis

ED101: The Three Stigmata of Philip K. Dick invites participants to read PKD’s 1964 Novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch as a prophetic precog flash on our present metacrisis and as an oracle to provide an answer to the question, “What would Philip K. Dick have to say about the strange state of current affairs?”

This course concluded in April 2025 and is now self-paced.